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Uzbekistan is one of the most unusual republics of the former USSR. We all know about guest workers and Uzbek plov. But few people know anything more.
Tamerlane built a huge empire here half a thousand years before the Union, and now monuments to him stand on all squares instead of Lenin’s. Russia has remained a close partner for Uzbekistan, but now China is increasingly visible here. After the collapse of the USSR, Islam Karimov came to power here and ruled like Brezhnev - just as long and as "stagnantly".
Today I will show you a country where corruption has ancient roots, and the market economy is replaced by a bazaar. But no matter how power and politics turn out, cotton and plov remain the main values.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:31 History of Uzbekistan
00:06:58 Conflict with Tajikistan over energy
00:09:05 Clashes in the Fergana Valley
00:14:18 Islam Karimov: dictatorial regime, corruption, personality cult
00:17:23 Karimov Empire
00:23:58 Alisher Usmanov is the richest Uzbek in the world
00:25:19 Extremism in Uzbekistan
00:28:44 Namangan is the second largest city in Uzbekistan
00:36:57 Church of the Archangel Michael
00:39:29 Events in Andijan
00:41:50 Cotton business
00:44:49 Cotton picking in Uzbekistan
00:55:27 How the Aral Sea disappeared
01:02:04 Muynak: gas, desert and ship graveyard
01:13:08 Mizahan Cemetery
01:14:46 World clock
01:16:51 Korean collective farms
01:30:37 Uzbek migrants
01:34:39 Enterprises from the USSR times
01:36:57 Brezhnev's broken collarbone
01:40:11 Russian language in Uzbekistan
01:43:35 Discrimination against other nations
01:48:13 ‘Desovietization’ and attitude towards Russia
01:51:41 Shavkat Mirziyoyev
01:54:29 Economy of Uzbekistan
01:58:17 Freedom of speech in Uzbekistan
02:01:49 Nostalgia for the USSR
02:04:59 How Tashkent was rebuilt after the earthquake
02:14:54 Chorsu Market
02:19:58 Palace of Friendship of Peoples
02:20:45 Boulevard on Lenin Avenue
02:22:46 Stalinist architecture in Tashkent
02:24:31 What is happening with the old architecture
02:25:56 National Uzbek cuisine
02:26:56 Walk around Tashkent
02:30:30 Hotel "Uzbekistan"
02:32:12 Restaurant "Zarafshan"
02:34:57 Museum of the History of Uzbekistan
02:36:40 Tashkent metro
02:38:39 Railways of Uzbekistan
02:39:53 Solar complex "Sun" - a real solar oven
02:43:23 Yangiabad - the city where time stopped
02:47:57 Gagarin and Uzbekistan
02:49:54 Nukus, Karakalpakstan
02:51:38 Savitsky Museum
03:01:12 Attitude towards Russia and the USSR
03:02:06 Results