Translated material
Daniil Kislov. Uzbekistan Under the Net
Uzbekistan Under the Net
Daniil Kislov
Publication date: June 7, 2000
Links:
WWW.Uz (works through a stump deck).
Government : Russian page and official news on it.
UMID World . Server of the state program for training Uzbek students abroad.
Islamic movement of Uzbekistan: chronicle of crimes.
Music of the Tashkent pop group "Setora" .
And even Tema Lebedev has his own. Well, the one who teaches and tells you about the correct design, how to do it and in general.
Weather in regions of Uzbekistan.
Enterprising gentlemen sell addresses like www.yourname.r.uz .
Tourism is booming in the eastern regions.
And human rights are protected to the fullest...
Daniil Kislov
Publication date: June 7, 2000
Reviewing the Uzbek Internet zone while sitting in rainy Moscow is a lot of fun. Especially when you come from the North a little further south, when you have just come from a walk around Mon Repos , when you got your feet wet in the Gulf of Finland, when your temperature is in the forties, and you feel like you’re in Tashkent’s Mustakillik (Independence) Square in Saraton ( the hottest time of the year is the end of July). A little more, and you will start to rave, talk... Well, I drink a bowl of cold green tea and get started.
According to my observations, the Uzbek segment of the Internet (for simplicity - “Uznet”) is in second place in terms of development among the CIS countries in general. Only the Tajik Internet is “developed” worse than Uznet , about which there is nothing to talk about due to lack of resources. Tajiks have no time for the Internet yet. If only there was no war, and there are five websites per country - and that’s not bad...
in the recently appeared and quite actively growing classifier www.vse.uz. About 200 Uzbek servers with more than 8,000 pages are registered This, in fact, is the only more or less normally made catalog covering almost the entire Uznet, even its corners with winning names such as Estrada , Uztea or simply News , which are always inaccessible...
It is necessary to immediately clarify that the right to administer the UZ domain was acquired several years ago by the German company EUROCOM, registered at Siegmarstrasse, 31, Berlin, 12683 DE. True, currently the maintenance of the top-level DNS server is provided by a certain Boris Miller , who is directly related to an American private company . Answering my questions about domain registration, Mr. Miller said he was ready to seal the address in UZ for free, but frankly added that “he cannot guarantee that in the future this domain will not be re-registered by another person through the official owner of the UZ domain.” Very good news, to say the least. Only then did I understand why numerous German, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish and other sites ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 and 7 , 8, although they are in the UZ zone, have nothing to do with Uzbekistan. It turns out that these addresses were sold by the “official owner of the domain” to the side at a rather high price, by the way ($100). But they’re on Uznet, so you’ll have to say a few words... Here are wonderful transcripts or scripts of two dozen popular American films (for example, “Dogma” and “Apocalypse Now”). But most of all I liked the “Uzbek-Swedish”, presumably, The Brotherhood of Pain .
Despite the fact that (unlike the Kyrgyz) the Uzbek authorities are not yet thinking about returning the status of the state language to the Russian language, the vast majority of Uznet resources use the language of interethnic communication as the main one. The inertia of the population is affecting the process of jumping from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet, legalized by the state... There is not a single purely Uzbek-language site on Uznet, you know. The majority are combined. Tashkent.Uz - all in Russian; Tashkent.Org - only in English. But there is also the English-language Tashkent.Com and the Russian-language private web almanac “Tashkent Chimes” at Uzcapital.Uz . The last site is a very nice non-profit enterprise, launched on a grand scale by a man in love with his city, the most visited place in Uznet (150 hosts and 350 visits per day) .
Other cities of Uzbekistan are almost not represented in Uznet. Sad. recently appeared True, Ferghana.Uz .
According to the international organization Reporters Without Borders, twenty countries of the world (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) “do not allow their citizens can freely use the Internet."
I don’t know what facts the respected “Reporters” were guided by, but we were unable to detect mass network graves. Although the main (national and authorized) Internet provider "UzPaK", striving for a monopoly, could, if desired, tighten the screws on its territory. Some other providers ( East Link Co.Ltd. , Naitov , UzNet ) have their own channels and are still independent of the monopolist, which inspires hope for Uzbekistan’s exit from the ill-fated twenty.
Clients of UzPaK and its subproviders, indeed, sometimes have problems with access to Russian and Western servers. But this is most likely a consequence of technical errors, rather than the deliberate isolation of unwanted resources. So far, only the website of the opposition political movement Birlik has become completely and irrevocably inaccessible from Uzbekistan ; it is not accessible even via IP. Providers and their system administrators seem to be aware of the level of quality of their work. For example, the Ishonch company self-critically named its website Chaos ...
Although he will be the first to know something! According to Kommersant-daily (05.11.1999), it was in Uzbekistan that the world's first law on digital signatures was adopted. This happened on May 5, 1993. According to the Russian developers of this law, Islam Karimov simply signed the draft law of the Russian Federation translated from Russian, which caused considerable surprise among specialists! I have not yet been able to check how and where it is used...
Finally - a list of the main addresses inside Uznet - and soar your feet in mustard and linden blossom. By the way, the cashier at the entrance to the Monrepos estate turned out to be from Samarkand (Uzbekistan). Unfortunately, she doesn't know much about the Internet...
Links:
WWW.Uz (works through a stump deck).
Government : Russian page and official news on it.
UMID World . Server of the state program for training Uzbek students abroad.
Islamic movement of Uzbekistan: chronicle of crimes.
Music of the Tashkent pop group "Setora" .
And even Tema Lebedev has his own. Well, the one who teaches and tells you about the correct design, how to do it and in general.
Weather in regions of Uzbekistan.
Enterprising gentlemen sell addresses like www.yourname.r.uz .
Tourism is booming in the eastern regions.
And human rights are protected to the fullest...
01.06.2000