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November 17, 2017 www.intellinews.com
Revived steel industry washes away Zenica’s blues
Ivana Jovanovic in Zenica
Anyone arriving in Zenica, central Bosnia & Herzegovina, prior to 2004 would have found the post-war town just as it was described in “Zenica blues”, a song by the famous ex-Yugoslavian band Zabranjeno pusenje (No smoking). Life in Zenica, the site of the broken country’s largest prison, was so grim the lyrics claimed “whoever
Could Uzbekistan be Iran’s bastion of influence in Central Asia?
Kanat Shaku in Almaty
In times of yore, the territories now covered by Iran and Uzbekistan were both part of the Persian Empire. Yet the two nations have grown distant
in the one hundred years since the Uzbeks were enveloped into the Soviet Union.
survives 12 years in Zenica prison, is a real hajji”.
Most people arriving in Zenica today still sing a bit of Zenica blues, but the town is no longer grey even on a foggy early November evening. Today,
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International interest in Uzbekistan has been revived by the rise to power of the apparently reform-minded President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
Following the collapse of the Communist bloc in 1991, the subsequent hard authoritarian rule of isolationist post-Soviet autocrat Islam Karimov, who ruled as president for 25 years until his death
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