“While it is undeniable that Mirziyoyev’s Uzbekistan is less paranoid, much freer and tolerant than Karimov’s… the very nature of the system remains unchanged.”
Turko-Mongol ruler Timur was appreciative of the arts and culture. The emperor was as fierce, cruel and ambitious as his predecessor, Genghis Khan. However, apart from his soft spot for the arts, he had one more peculiar weakness: chess. It is said that he even invented a chess variant called ‘Tamerlane Chess’. Diana Mihajlova tells us more.
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TORONTO: I had only ever heard of Samarkand a 7th-century city on the Silk Road, the famous trade route running from China to the Mediterranean in history class. And it was the allure of the ancient Silk Road that took me there. Present-day Samarkand in Uzbekistan still bears traces of its former status as part of the Soviet Union, and the city is influenced, both