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Oleg Panfilov

Oleg Panfilov is the director of the Center of Journalism in Extreme Situations, Russian press observatory. He is a specialist of Central Asia.

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“Tashkent Has Been Deprived of its Voice”

by Oleg Panfilov

16 May 2005

The problem of Uzbekistan and of other countries of Central Asia, as well as of most countries of the CIS, is not having developed a political culture throughout Soviet history. To be more precise, as there were never dissidents, there is no tradition of political debate. Independent (...)