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Kyrgyzstan ends Uzbek-language graduation exams
Starting this year, ethnic Uzbek high school students in Kyrgyzstan will no longer be able to take final exams in their native language.
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Uzbekistan: Forced to labor in cotton fields, students rebel
Uzbekistan’s practice of sending forced laborers to pick the cotton harvest causes a furor abroad every year.
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Uzbekistan cotton harvest disrupts schools
As in years past, Uzbekistan’s annual cotton harvest is wreaking havoc on the educational system.
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Uzbek-language education declines in Tajikistan
Ethnic Uzbeks living in western Tajikistan say opportunities to be taught in their own language have been dramatically curtailed.
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The Princess and Her ‘Gulivers’
Uzbekistan’s Gulnara Karimova may be down, but her cultural impact, especially among the young, is too great to count her out.
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