My face at five when my mom gave me chocolate coins:

Has Trump already signed the appointment of Marco Rubio as Governor General?

#Venezuela

🇰🇿 #Kazakh lawyer Murat Adam, who is defending journalist Gulnara Bazhkenova, is facing the revocation of his license.

Remember the line American police officers say in movies?

In #CentralAsian countries, it would sound like this:

‘Peacemaker’ #Trump invaded another country, carried out bombings, and kidnapped an elected head of state. International agreements and the UN Charter have been completely thrown into the fire.

What, in the current situation, is stopping #Putin from doing whatever he wants to the Ukrainian people?

@mcfaulmike.bsky.social

🤞 Universe, remove at least one of these two…

🇺🇿 One last thing. The fact that an interview with Saida #Mirziyoyeva – head of the Presidential Administration of Uzbekistan, and at the same time the daughter of the head of state and the de facto co-ruler alongside her father – was released in Russian, ⤵️

For years, human rights defenders & journalists exposed child labor and forced adult labor on #Uzbekistans cotton fields. Major clothing brands rejected Uzbek cotton; authorities had to start addressing these problems.

Saida Mirziyoyeva, daughter of the president:
– This is my father’s achievement

🇺🇿 A well-known blogger in #Uzbekistan who published an interview with the president’s daughter, Saida #Mirziyoyeva, on his YouTube channel warns subscribers that posting critical comments could land them in prison for four years. 1/3 ⤵️

⚡️ Have you seen the famous candid interview given in 1947 by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin’s daughter, to a journalist from the newspaper Pravda? I haven’t seen it either. But today a recording found in the archives has been published: youtu.be/ASlXtubDKOU

To those who spend the New Year in prisons and pre-trial detention for their own and others’ rights and freedoms, I wish a speedy return home to their families.

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🇩🇪 Germany has terminated an investigation into one of Putin’s so-called “wallets” – Russian billionaire of Uzbek origin Alisher Usmanov. The case concerning a possible violation of sanctions was closed without charges being filed. In return, Usmanov agreed to pay about €10M to the state & charities.

⚡️🇰🇿 Russian serviceman who deserted the army has been stuck in Astana airport’s transit zone for three days. #Kazakhstan authorities refuse him entry or asylum registration. The Human Rights Bureau has appealed to state authorities for access to the asylum procedure.

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🎬 Thoughts on film. Still waiting for a good biopic about Marie Skłodowska-Curie, a two-time Nobel Prize laureate (in Physics and Chemistry) at a time when women around the world still did not have the right to vote. Her daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, also became a Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry.

⚡️ Reports suggest that the United States is planning to replace the Fahrenheit temperature scale with the Trump scale. The reference point – zero degrees on the Trump scale – will be the temperature for the perfect tan of the 45th President of the United States.

#Karakalpakstan 2022: relatives outside police station seeking missing people. 3rd anniversary of deadly violence passing in virtual silence in #Uzbekistan. For fullest account in English, read my book Silk Mirage, out in November - pre-order here www.bloomsbury.com/uk/silk-mira...