{"id":58084,"date":"2021-02-28T11:25:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T11:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=167926"},"modified":"2021-02-28T11:25:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T11:25:53","slug":"majlis-podcast-who-lives-in-uzbekistans-shovvozsoy-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/28\/majlis-podcast-who-lives-in-uzbekistans-shovvozsoy-mansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Majlis Podcast: Who Lives In Uzbekistan’s Shovvozsoy Mansion?"},"content":{"rendered":"
RFE\/RL’s Uzbek Service recently released a detailed report about a new resort that was secretly built about 100 kilometers southeast of the Uzbek capital, Tashkent.<\/p>\n
Allegedly it is the luxurious hideaway of President Shavkat Mirziyoev, which would seem to undercut Mirziyoev’s promises for a more responsible and transparent government than the one he inherited in September 2016 when his predecessor, Islam Karimov, died.<\/p>\n
On this week’s Majlis Podcast, RFE\/RL media-relations manager Muhammad Tahir moderates a discussion on the new complex, who it belongs to, and what is now being said about it inside Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n
This week’s guests are: from Tashkent, Mira Matyakubowa, co-founder of the anti-corruption organization UzInvestigations and a fellow at the U.K.-based Foreign Policy Center; from Prague, Carl Schreck, RFE\/RL enterprise editor; and Bruce Pannier, author of the Qishloq Ovozi blog.<\/p>\n
Listen to the podcast above or subscribe to the Majlis on iTunes<\/a><\/strong> or on Google Podcasts<\/a><\/strong>.<\/div>\n\n