http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnJ0xGK8dC4
GooGoosha sings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8yhSgtQ7DY
http://centralasiaonline.com/cocoon/caii/xhtml/en_GB/features/caii/features/business/2010/06/23/feature-02
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Zeromax even “borrowed from foreign investors (the World Bank and Asian Development Bank [ADB]) under government guarantees”, Taksanov said.
The World Bank and ADB both told Central Asia Online they had no financial involvement with Zeromax.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/03/hbc-90006766
| March 25, 9:57 AM, 2010 · Washington Babylon · Previous · Next |
Is Pentagon in Bed with “Queen of the Uzbeks”?
Should the Pentagon be cutting deals with a company apparently controlled by the powerful daughter of Uzbekistan’s dissident-boiling dictator, Islam Karimov? As previously noted here, Gulnara Karimova has amassed a striking degree of wealth and international fame, with friends who include Bill Clinton and Sting.
Gulnara is widely believed to control Zeromax, which reports annual sales of over $1 billion and is involved in transportation, oil and gas, mining, agriculture and private investment. Last year, Foreign Policy quoted a Central Asian analyst as saying, “Zeromax is essentially one of the facades behind which Gulnara Karimova continues to tighten her grip on any and all available sources of income in the country by any means she deems necessary, with little or no regard for legal niceties.”
FMN Logistics describes itself as “the U.S. small business contracting arm of Zeromax.” Harry Eustace Jr., FMN’s CEO, serves as a board member of the American-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce (AUCC), where his father, Harry Eustace Sr. serves as Chairman. Eustace Sr. also is a senior advisor to Zeromax.
“The AUCC promotes trade and investment ties between the United States and Uzbekistan and lobbies against U.S. sanctions on Karimov’s government,” Foreign Policy reported. “Following the 2005 Andijan massacre — in which hundreds of unarmed protesters were mowed down by Uzbek security forces — the organization’s president, James Cornell, wrote to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urging her to take into account the “special context” of Andijan and “not rush to conclusion or ignore the thorough investigation carried out by the government of Uzbekistan.”
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Tell Sting: the Uzbek people want their money back
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I could hardly believe this story that Eurasianet broke back in September of last year, about Sting’s plan to give a concert for the Uzbek elite at the behest of Gulnora Karimova, daughter of dictator Islam Karimov. Tickets for $1,000? Nice, in a country with a minimum monthly wage of less than $20, and from a performer who styles himself as a champion of human rights. Then in February this year the UK Guardian came out with the news that the guy pocketed between $1 and $2 million US for the show, claiming he thought it had been sponsored by UNICEF. Right.Since Gulnora is linked to the holding company Zeromax, which boasts thousands of acres planted under cotton, Sting’s dirty money is likely to have been in part wrung out of the exhausted land by the tired little hands of Uzbek school-kids. Though to be 100% fair, Zeromax denies that it uses child labor to harvest its cotton (but this deserves a post of its own).
Everyone has a chance to let Sting know what they think of his moneymaking venture via this petition, asking him to sign over his profits from the show to the cause of Uzbek human rights.
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http://www.eurasianet.org/node/62582
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Setting the Record Straight, Again, on the NDN and the Karimovs
http://www.uznews.net/news_single.php?lng=en&sub=&cid=31&nid=3290
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http://www.uznews.net/news_single.php?lng=en&cid=2&sub=top&nid=13753
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Zeromax, set up in Switzerland in 2001, positioned itself as a private foreign company that had achieved outstanding successes in the Uzbek economy thanks to its innovative, financial and market skills and potential.
The company concealed that President Islam Karimov’s daughter was behind it and tried to cover up the signs of this link, which opened all doors for the company in Uzbekistan, which has been ruled by Gulnara’s father.
Within a decade of its existence Zeromax set up about 10 joint and subsidiary companies in the country’s oil and gas sector. They were involved in designing and running projects in reconstructing and laying gas pipelines and building industrial facilities in the energy sector.
The Uzbekneftegaz national oil and gas company said Zeromax’s enterprises had conducted about 80% of construction projects in the oil and gas sector in Uzbekistan.
For instance, Zeromax was a contractor to build the Uzbek section of the Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline and it owned the UzGazOil chain of petrol stations and assets in the textile, good, construction, mining and agricultural sectors.
http://en.hrsu.org/category/statement/
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Government persecution of human rights defenders and journalists, persisting torture and ill-treatment of detainees and the impunity with which it occurs, and the continued lack of accountability for the 2005 massacre of mostly unarmed protesters in the city of Andijan topped the committee’s concerns. It asked the Uzbek government to report back within one year on measures taken to address them.
Uzbekistan - Andijan Massacre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thdWPvxMyyk
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav092905.shtml
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The Uzbek government is engaged in an expansive effort to convince domestic and international opinion that Islamic militants were responsible for the violence that engulfed Andijan on May 13. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. Defendants at a show trial being staged in Tashkent have testified that Islamic militants belonging to the so-called Akromiya group sought to foment an uprising in Andijan with the ultimate goal of toppling President Islam Karimov's administration. Akromiya members received backing from international terrorist groups, according to the official Uzbek version of developments. Citing Uzbekistan's atrocious rights record, human rights activists believe the defendants were likely tortured into making confessions. The defendants have testified that their testimony has not been coerced.
Rights activists say the Karimov administration is trying to use the trial, along with a wide-ranging mass media campaign, to deflect blame for the Andijan massacre. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. According to eyewitness testimony gathered by rights groups, including Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW), the overwhelming majority of deaths during the May 13 events in Andijan occurred when Uzbek security forces opened fire without warning on peaceful demonstrators gathered in the city's central Babur Square. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive].
http://www.uznews.net/news_single.php?lng=en&cid=31%E2%8A%82=&nid=13688
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The meal at Route Veneto was on 16 May 2008. In the second week of August of the same year Laporta made his first trip to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, where he was received with honours of a head of state. In this and later visits later to the Asian country, his hostess was Gulnara Karimova, self-proclaimed "princess of the Uzbeks", a woman with an extraordinarily broad curriculum vitae. Part Princess Diana, part Sarah Palin, part Bond girl, part Cruella de Vil. She is 37 years old, possesses a doctorate in Political Sciences and a masters from Harvard; she designs jewellery for the Swiss house Chopard; she has her own mark of fashion and of design, called Guli; she takes part in charitable projects charitable to develop woman and young people; she is a singer of pop, a role into which she changes her name into that of GooGoosha (on her web page, http://www.gulnarakarimova.com/, it is possible to access her version of Besa me Mucho with Julio Iglesias), stories have been published on her in Vogue, Harper's and Hello!, she has been photographed along with some of the most famous persons of the world (including Elton John and the ex-president of the United States, Bill Clinton). At the end of last year, Karimova, the business woman (Zeromax is the most diversified and biggest company in her country), was nominated by a magazine of Geneva as one of the 10 richest women of Switzerland, a country where she is an ambassador of Uzbekistan to the UN, with a fortune estimated in more (some of them say that much more) than five hundred million euros. In April of this year she presented her credentials to the king of Spain as ambassador of her country in Madrid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Bunyodkor
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Uzbekistan - Andijan Massacre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thdWPvxMyyk
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav092905.shtml
Excerpt:
The Uzbek government is engaged in an expansive effort to convince domestic and international opinion that Islamic militants were responsible for the violence that engulfed Andijan on May 13. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. Defendants at a show trial being staged in Tashkent have testified that Islamic militants belonging to the so-called Akromiya group sought to foment an uprising in Andijan with the ultimate goal of toppling President Islam Karimov's administration. Akromiya members received backing from international terrorist groups, according to the official Uzbek version of developments. Citing Uzbekistan's atrocious rights record, human rights activists believe the defendants were likely tortured into making confessions. The defendants have testified that their testimony has not been coerced.
Rights activists say the Karimov administration is trying to use the trial, along with a wide-ranging mass media campaign, to deflect blame for the Andijan massacre. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. According to eyewitness testimony gathered by rights groups, including Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW), the overwhelming majority of deaths during the May 13 events in Andijan occurred when Uzbek security forces opened fire without warning on peaceful demonstrators gathered in the city's central Babur Square. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive].
http://www.uznews.net/news_single.php?lng=en&cid=31%E2%8A%82=&nid=13688
Excerpt:
The meal at Route Veneto was on 16 May 2008. In the second week of August of the same year Laporta made his first trip to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, where he was received with honours of a head of state. In this and later visits later to the Asian country, his hostess was Gulnara Karimova, self-proclaimed "princess of the Uzbeks", a woman with an extraordinarily broad curriculum vitae. Part Princess Diana, part Sarah Palin, part Bond girl, part Cruella de Vil. She is 37 years old, possesses a doctorate in Political Sciences and a masters from Harvard; she designs jewellery for the Swiss house Chopard; she has her own mark of fashion and of design, called Guli; she takes part in charitable projects charitable to develop woman and young people; she is a singer of pop, a role into which she changes her name into that of GooGoosha (on her web page, http://www.gulnarakarimova.com/, it is possible to access her version of Besa me Mucho with Julio Iglesias), stories have been published on her in Vogue, Harper's and Hello!, she has been photographed along with some of the most famous persons of the world (including Elton John and the ex-president of the United States, Bill Clinton). At the end of last year, Karimova, the business woman (Zeromax is the most diversified and biggest company in her country), was nominated by a magazine of Geneva as one of the 10 richest women of Switzerland, a country where she is an ambassador of Uzbekistan to the UN, with a fortune estimated in more (some of them say that much more) than five hundred million euros. In April of this year she presented her credentials to the king of Spain as ambassador of her country in Madrid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Bunyodkor
