Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan to Jointly Investigate Sokh Incident Kyrgyzstan’s National Security Committee reported that talks were held between officials from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan regarding the hostage-taking incident in Sokh that began on 5 January. The governors of Uzbekistan’s Ferghana province and Kyrgyzstan’s Batken province, representatives of each country’s border control agencies, and local government and [...]
How Dare You Can Be Googoosha?
The following is a guest post from Davron Ibragimov. The late 2012 English-language music video “How Dare” by Googoosha (aka Gulnora Karimova, daughter of Uzbekistan’s dictator-president Islom Karimov) is, among other things, a comment on gender and power in Uzbekistan. The video’s partly Rihanna-inspired footage depicts Man-Hunk tortured by a monstrous identity (instinct?) struggling to [...]
Nuclear Retention and Moral High Ground
While the rest of the United Nations was debating Palestinian statehood late last week, one high-ranking UN official dropped a piece of nuclear intrigue that went relatively unnoticed. According to RIA Novosti, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, former Kazakhstani foreign minister and current director-general of the UN office in Geneva, called attention to an as-yet unknown piece of [...]
On Kazakh-language Wikipedia, Crowdsourcing Meets Crowd Mentality
Over at EurasiaNet, I pointed to the heated discussion over Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’ involvement with the Kazakh government on his user page. Heated, at least, until Wales closed off discussion on the topic of manipulation and bias in his freely-editable Wikipedia page in a curiously unironic rant: I’m closing this discussion because it has reached the [...]
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