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	<title>Digital Sketches &#187; central asia</title>
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		<title>Tashkent: spacy or spacious</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The suprise starts at Tashkent International Airport (Yuzhniy). It is way too big considering the amount of users. The first few days in Uzbekistan &#8211; we started last week in Nukus, West Uzbekistan &#8211; I thought: wow, impressive building or square but where are the people? But then it starts to look familiar. My first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=436&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solomon&#8217;s throne (4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sulamain-Too Sacred Mountain &#8211; in popular speech Solomon&#8217;s throne &#8211; of Kyrgyzstan will become Kyrgystan&#8217;s first site to be inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
Read more in Elena&#8217;s article on NewEurasia
Also read my earlier posts about this tiny but much discussed mountain hill
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		<title>Kazakhtan&#8217;s internet is closing down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kazakhstan is known for being &#8216;not free&#8217; according to reports of Reporters sans frontiers and the FreedomHouse. But protests continue. Last week for example journalists held a silent protest in Almaty, former capital of Kazakhstan. More details on the redesigned Neweurasianet.
The protest also addressed the growing repressive nature of the media legislation. Lately the Kazakh [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=425&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making of the Modern World</title>
		<link>http://digitalsketches.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/making-of-the-modern-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. Jack Weatherford is the author of Genghis Khan, and the making of the modern world did not want to write a autobiography of Khan or a book about the Mongols. He rather wanted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=414&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The shadow of the Holy Book (III)</title>
		<link>http://digitalsketches.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/the-shadow-of-the-holy-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The documentary film Shadow of the Holy Book reveals the secretive and repressive dictatorship of Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan&#8217;s head of state from 1985 to 2006, and the Western companies who did business with him.
Listen to  the discussion about the film held at the OSI office New York in February.
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		<title>Barcamper&#8217;s favourite tools</title>
		<link>http://digitalsketches.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/some-of-the-barcampers-favourite-tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended the Barcamp in Almaty.  Again it was a lively and informal gathering of enthusiastic digital natives from all over Central Asia.  On this videoclip (6.30 min.) some of them share the digital tools they use most and probable also love most.
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		<title>IFFR</title>
		<link>http://digitalsketches.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/iffr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me the International Filmfestival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2009 was:
The Hungry Ghosts (NYC): entertaining citystories
Blind Pig who wants to fly (Indonesia): surrealistic, wonderful disorientating, puzzeling visual poetry. Quote:  &#8216;Schiet met je boog, maar niet in mijn oog. Want mijn oog is voor iedereen, en mijn hart alleen voor jou.&#8217; I just called to say I love [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=336&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Universities will cancel classes on Ruhnama (II)</title>
		<link>http://digitalsketches.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/universities-cancel-classes-on-%e2%80%9choly-rukhnama%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[`This year Ruhnama, which stands for Treatise of Spirituality, will be taught not as a separate course but together with other courses on history, political science, economics and Turkmen renaissance.
Published in 2001, Ruhnama was the main ideological product and a basis of political propaganda under the first president Saparmurat Niyazov. Ruhnama was considered a source [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=204&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dutch edition Ruhnama (I)</title>
		<link>http://digitalsketches.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/ruhmana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ruhnama (book of the soul) is in the West an unknown book. But for most youngsters in Turkmenistan it is the only book they know, sometimes even by heart. It is taught on every school and is supposed to be the most important and most of the times only schoolbook.  Every student should have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=174&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cold and dark winter?</title>
		<link>http://digitalsketches.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/199/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A general frustration in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are the fast increasing prices for food and oil. But also water &#8211; and therefore electricity &#8211; is becoming a huge problem in the region. During July and August Kazakh farmers had to slaughter parts of their cattle, as continuously dry weather poses serious threat of losing the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digitalsketches.wordpress.com&blog=1127870&post=199&subd=digitalsketches&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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