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Yodgar Obid: I Grew up in Cotton Plantations

 

Yodgar Obid left Uzbekistan in 1990s to Europe and calls Austria his home. Recently his poems over sufferings of little children on Uzbek cotton plantations found its way to the English language cotton campaign site.  

read more >> Aziz Beishenaliev: Russia Taught Me Where My Homeland Is
Interview with Film Star based in Moscow
read more >> Exiled Poet Recalls Terror

With audio, Russian translation

 

Next Wednesday four years ago the Andijan massacre took place in Uzbekistan, where, by some accounts, hundreds of innocent people were killed during the anti-government uprising. Many independent journalists and authors, who wrote or expressed their opinions over the massacre, were persecuted or exiled. Here we bring the poetry of one of them, Kudrat Bobojon, who now lives in Western Europe.

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«Forgotten” Literary Master Dies in Tashkent
People’s Writer of Uzbekistan Adil Yakubov has died December 21. Born in Kazakhstan in 1926, he was celebrated for his numerous novels and short stories, as well as for his raising pressing issues of his country. 
read more >> Photographer Accused of Slandering Uzbekistan

Tashkent based Umida Akhmedova was interrogated by authorities in November on request of the Media and Information Agency of Uzbekistan which accused her of slandering and insulting “the Uzbek nation”. If found guilty, Mrs. Akhmedova may be sentenced up to three years of forced work or imprisoned for six month.

read more >> Turkmenistan Photo Book Presentation in Paris

Jean-Baptiste Jeangene Vilmer will present his photo book TURKMENISTAN recently released at Non Lieu Publishing House. The meeting is planned for December 12, 4-7pm at Librairie Itinéraires in Paris.

read more >> Kyrgyz Musician in San-Francisco
Berkeley presents the Master Musician and Teacher Akylbek Serkebaev from Kyrgyzstan who makes his festival debut on November 15 at 7pm at the Silk Road House.
read more >> Kyrgyz Films in Uppsala Festival
The 28th Uppsala International Short Film Festival in Sweden ispresenting two programmes of award-winning fiction and documentary films from Kyrgyzstan at this year's festival (October 19-25, 2009).  The films cover a range of social concerns in post-independence Kyrgyzstan, and are a showcase of the creative voices and visions of emergent and established Kyrgyz filmmakers. 
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