Satire

16 january 2016
“We sell the child and I’ll buy a car for my husband”
According to the publishing house “Huquq”, Khalid Sharipova, mother of five children, lived in a Sharia marriage with Sharifjon ...
16 january 2016
Bird hanged himself mourning a severed plane tree
Over the past few years, hundreds of trees have been felled across Uzbekistan, including ancient plane trees, that, for ...
9 january 2016
“It’s not of interest to us whether you have gas or not…”
Artist: Elsevar
7 january 2016
Tajik President performs Umrah
On January 4, the Tajik President Emomali Rahmon performed a pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the Umrah,  as part ...
7 january 2016
“So, you have a broken arm…”
Artist: Elsevar
6 january 2016
“Russia needs Gas”
Uzbekistan is currently facing one of the worst energy crises in the history of the country. All major cities ...
6 january 2016
Throne of president Karimov
ELSEVAR – an artist who loves the people. Starting from January 5, 2016, a new artist and cartoonist from ...
22 december 2015
“Gas” protest in Ferghana
Due to the lack of gas, about 200 residents of an apartment building in the city of Ferghana in ...
18 december 2015
“My compatriots, the cotton farmers, grant me some castles.”
On December 15, 2015, The New York Times published an article about a new generation of “hyper-luxury homes” on ...
15 december 2015
Uzbekistan is trying to return its citizens working in Turkey
Artist: Tuz
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5 february 2018
If Paul Day builds a monument to late Uzbek dictator Islam Karimov, the blood of his victims will taint the artist’s work forever
An open letter from Uzbek human rights activists to the British sculptor Paul Day commissioned to commemorate former President ...
1 june 2016
Uzbekistan: Everyone went to weed cotton – teachers, college principals, as well as prosecutors
Today, Uzbek farmers have a good deal of work to do. The fields have been sown with cotton and, ...
14 february 2017
ILO: Forced labor in Uzbekistan is not happening because we do not want to believe it
The International Labor Organization (ILO) recently published a report based on a monitoring mission on child and forced labor ...
20 august 2015
Uzbek officials: “Our prisons are most progressive, mass media are most democratic; no torture, because it is prohibited!”
Every five years starting in 1996 Uzbekistan delivers a report before UN Committee for Human Rights on the implementation ...