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The Mysterious Presidential Reservoir That Left Uzbek Villagers Dry By RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service February 23, 2021 The residents of Tut, a village of cattle breeders and farmers in Uzbekistan’s highlands, have long depended on the Shovvozsoy River for their drinking water, irrigation, and livestock. But in the summer of 2018, the Shovvozsoy which begins in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan and flows down into the Angren River in Uzbekistan’s Tashkent region slowed to a trickle, according to several villagers. “Our crops and orchards dried up,” one local in Tut, which is located at the lower end of the Shovvozsoy, told RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service. “We had to survive by buying water from neighboring villages.” ....
‘Our Father’s Dacha’ How An Uzbek Activist Sniffed Out The President’s ‘Secret’ By RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service February 23, 2021 Aleksei Garshin, a 50-year-old activist based in Tashkent, says it was late 2018 when his fellow hunting enthusiasts told him about a secretive resort allegedly built for Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev in a forested highland. He says he had heard that because of the resort which locals refer to as the Uzbek president’s “dacha,” though its scale and cost far exceed that of a simple country home authorities had sealed off the area where the compound was built, known as Shovvozsoy. ....
A ‘Classified’ Uzbek Resort Fit For A President By RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service February 23, 2021 In October 2018, workers in the Uzbek city of Ohangaron, 65 kilometers southeast of Tashkent, could be seen carrying out road repairs and sprucing up the city’s main thoroughfare. They gave building facades a fresh coat of paint and arranged Potemkin storefronts for shops with little inside beyond construction materials strewn on the floor. It was clear someone important was coming to town. The buzz in the city was that Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev was the mystery VIP and that he might have Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was set to arrive in Uzbekistan for an official visit, in tow. ....