Word: uzbekistan
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...have fed a sense that the U.S. is pushing its own influence into Moscow's traditional sphere of influence by supporting democratic rebellions against pro-Russian strongmen such as Belarus' leader Alexander Lukashenko. Russia has pushed back by pressuring allies in Central Asia to distance themselves from the U.S. - Uzbekistan, for example, asked the U.S. to close the main airbase servicing U.S. forces in Afghanistan after Washington challenged human rights violations by the regime of President Islam Kharimov...
...wrote about his experience as Peace Corps volunteer in Uzbekistan in his critically-acclaimed first book, “Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia...
...Putin's hospitality is understandable; after all, Russia does not have many friends. Those still left, like Belarus, or those now coming back after a long estrangement, like Uzbekistan, are ones who share Putin's views on how to deal with terror closer to home. Yesterday, the Uzbek authorities officially confirmed that a month ago they clamped a seven-year jail sentence on the lawyer and human rights activist Saidjahon Zainabitdinov. His official crimes were conspiring with terrorists and defaming the state. But Human Rights Watch and others believe that his real offense was telling the world - including...
...much in common with any other Harvard publication. “I love law, and I love government stuff,” she says. “But sometimes you just want to relax—you don’t want to think about the political situation in Uzbekistan, and you’d rather just sit back and look at pictures from a fashion shoot...
Other locations now on the College’s list of countries approved for sponsored travel include Nigeria, Liberia, Philippines, Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the West Bank and Gaza...