Word: uzbekistan
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...shoot with a little extra poundage, they just touch her up later. Kate Moss could, if she wished, balloon all the way up to 100 lbs., and she'd still get work. But little Nadya Abouttofallova eats one pork rind, and she's on the first plane back to Uzbekistan. It's hard to feel sympathy for people who make their living from being freakily beautiful, but come on, folks, leave the models alone. Let's at least pick on someone our own size...
...religions, to underscore the religious tolerance and respect that has been firmly established in a multiethnic country. An opening concert was headlined by legendary Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé, as if to personify the harmoniousness and opulence Kazakhstan wants to project. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the presence of Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov. After the 1991 U.S.S.R. breakup, Uzbekistan looked down its nose at Kazakhstan - historically nomadic, steppe-locked, undeveloped - and Karimov claimed the role of regional heavyweight for himself. But here he was, despite his obsession with protocol, choosing his own country's independence day to embark...
...Putin have a lot in common besides their approach to the U.S.: hostility toward "separatism" (in Chechnya, Tibet and Xinjiang) and wariness of politically unpredictable actors such as environmental groups, journalists and U.S.-funded ngos. They combined to pressure the U.S. to withdraw from a base in Uzbekistan established to help fight the Taliban, and have tried to engineer an eviction from another base in Kyrgyzstan. Beijing Editorials in China reflecting Beijing's official line blame Washington for a lingering cold-war mentality and stay tight-lipped on Putin's authoritarian excesses. "It's the best relationship between China...
...hard to project power with a name like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Certainly, the 10-country Eurasian assembly, which gathered in China's financial capital last week, can't claim the brand recognition of the European Union. But the SCO?which consists of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as observer nations India, Pakistan, Iran and Mongolia?is rapidly raising its profile. The regional bloc's massive population (more than 40% of the world's total), wealth of natural resources (more than 20% of the world's oil reserves) and strategic location could give considerable influence...
...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...