Satire

5 may 2016
Those who go to Turkey will be denied soup!
The artist Tuz notes the sad fate of Uzbek singers who constantly receive warnings and reprimands from officials concerning ...
26 april 2016
Tashkent says Goodbye to Trams
Since April 22 2016, Tashkent has closed all its tram routes. The decision to abolish the tram system was ...
4 april 2016
New posters in the Tashkent metro call for vigilance and denunciation
In Uzbekistan, freedom of speech guaranteed by the law has been put on a level with acts of terrorism. ...
1 april 2016
Selfie with Borat
According to preliminary results of the parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan, the political party “Nur Otan”, led by head of ...
18 march 2016
Kazakh minister wants to cut off the chest of a sculpture!
Arystanbek Muhamediuly, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Culture and Sport, has suggested that the “Lovers” sculpture — which depicts a woman ...
19 february 2016
Hospital or Bazaar?
For any person, a disease is an unpleasant affair. But in Uzbekistan, where free medical care is practically dead, ...
15 february 2016
Diagnoses in Uzbek: “If the money won’t be here within the next five minutes, you will die”
The Uzbek government claims that more than half of the country’s budget is spent on social services, especially education ...
22 january 2016
Uzbekistan: Corruption everywhere
Over the last ten years, in an international corruption ranking, Uzbekistan annually landed among the top ten of the ...
19 january 2016
“I want my daughter’s money back!”
In August 2012, the Lausanne-based magazine “L’Hebdo” reported that two Uzbek citizens were arrested in Geneva on corruption offenses. ...
17 january 2016
“With your old passports you can get home on a flying carpet!”
Since January 1, 2016, Uzbek citizens are allowed to leave Russia only with biometric passports of the Republic of ...
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3 august 2016
Farmers in the Yakkabag district were taken away wheat crops
Since July, the local authorities have forcibly taken away the wheat grown by citizens in rainfed (unirrigated) home gardens ...
17 april 2016
University in Uzbekistan Threatens to Expel Students over Cotton Harvest, Claims Cotton Picking is Coursework
The dean of the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Land Reclamation threatened to invalidate transcripts of students who did ...
16 october 2015
Divers on the cotton fields?
2 august 2017
A Peek Behind the World Bank’s Mask
by Jessica Evans, Senior Researcher/Advocate at Human Rights Watch for International Financial Institutions Originally published at Huffington Post and ...