News Uzbekistan » Karakalpakstan » History: Uzbekistan: Why Karakalpakstan deserves its own guidebook
It was more than a decade ago that I first visited Nukus, the capital of the autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan, while researching the maiden edition of the Bradt Travel Guide to Uzbekistan. It was ...
News Uzbekistan » Karakalpakstan » History: Karakalpakstan is the most obscure and unique tourism destination in Uzbekistan
The Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan located in northwestern Uzbekistan has largely untapped tourism potential. When one thinks of tourism in Uzbekistan, the most immediate image that comes to ...
News Uzbekistan » Karakalpakstan » History: A dispatch from Uzbekistan, a country caught between its past and present
Uzbekistan’s Aral Sea, in the autonomous Karakalpakstan region, exemplifies the struggle between the country’s past and present—a bleak reminder of callous authoritarian central planning and the ...
News Uzbekistan » Karakalpakstan » History: Unrest in Central Asia: The Trouble in Karakalpakstan
Although protests this year in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan took place in different contexts, with different triggers, there are some similarities worth highlighting. Less than a week after ...
News Uzbekistan » Karakalpakstan » History: Uzbekistan president backtracks on constitution to defuse Karakalpakstan tension
The president of Uzbekistan has flown to a restive semi-autonomous republic in the country’s west and ordered the scrapping of proposed constitutional amendments that would have spelled the end to any ...
News Uzbekistan » Karakalpakstan » History: Uzbekistan: 2 Years on, No Justice in Autonomous Republic
(Berlin, July 1, 2024) – Uzbekistan authorities have increasingly cracked down on calls for independence in the autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan since protests broke out there two years ago, ...
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