Uzbekistan: Under Siege In An ‘Information War’
Verbal attacks and tighter restrictions on foreign media, criticism of the World Bank, the expulsion of the UN’s refugee agency: the words and actions of the Uzbek government over the past week all suggest a siege mentality is taking hold in Tashkent, and that it is now affecting the country’s relationships with some of the world’s leading supranational organizations, as well as with the West. Full Story