Friday, October 17, 2008

Interesting articles on Uzbekistan

There are not many articles in English dealing with Internet censorship in Uzbekistan. I was glad to find one of them published recently on "Transitions Online." It is called "Offline.uz." Not the most comprehensive article by any means, but it gives a nice general outlook on the media landscape in Uzbekistan.

Another article (also published on "Transitions Online") deals with the recent media conference in Uzbekistan sponsored by the government. The conference was to discuss democratic processes in Uzbek media and show the rest of the world how liberal the country is. The conference was a joke to start with. I cannot even imagine anyone (including Uzbek government) taking something like that seriously. Anyways, one of the participants vividly described his experience at the conference HERE.

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