According to the latest information, eight citizens of Uzbekistan were among those killed in a drone attack on facilities in Nizhnekamsk (Tatarstan, Russia) on August 10. Earlier, Uzbekistan’s Consulate General in Kazan reported seven fatalities. According to law enforcement authorities in Tatarstan, 13 people were killed. “Unfortunately, seven citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan (A.D.K., …
Tamara Chikunova, a well-known Uzbek human rights activist who campaigned against the death penalty and torture, died in Italy on March 31. I first met her in 2000, on the day she was told that her son had been executed. In April 1999, Tamara Chikunova’s 29-year-old son Dmitry was “invited” to a police station in …
Uzbekistan’s Honored Artist, theatre director and former artistic director of the State Academic Russian Drama Theatre of Uzbekistan, Vladimir Shapiro, has died. Below is a brief biography of the director and the author’s personal recollections of one of her meetings with him in the early 2000s. “His talented work enriched the palette of the country’s …
I met Nikolay Kucherskiy (Nikolai Kuchersky), a Hero of Uzbekistan and former director of the Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combine (NMMC), several times in the late 1990s and early 2000s. At the time, NMMC was one of the country’s most closed-off enterprises, as it produced gold and uranium. Once, I was even flown to Navoi …
