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A chill in Uzbekistan's cultural spring

Since the death of its iron dictator a decade ago, Uzbekistan is keen to rewrite its image through the arts. But beneath talk of intellectual openness, propaganda is still rife and new taboos are emerging. - 2026/11 / article

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