Tashkent to roll out AI facial-recognition attendance system to 302 more schools by 2028October 22, 2026
Batyr Rakhimov: The In-Law Problem Investigations October 22, 2026 Every political family has members it would rather not discuss. Very few have a member whose résumé includes the alleged…
Afterlife of a name: the pro-Kremlin clones of Qora Mergan Analysis & Explainers October 21, 2026 Here is the strangest fact in the entire Qora Mergan story: the name outlived the channel, and it changed sides.…
The fallen idol of Jizzakh: what Qora Mergan’s tribute-fixation reveals Analysis & Explainers October 20, 2026 A recurring feature in the Qora Mergan archive, easy to miss among the generals and oligarchs, is the landscape of…
Riddles in the crossfire: fortune-tellers, muftis and the Qora Mergan universe Analysis & Explainers October 19, 2026 Not every thread of the Qora Mergan archive concerned criminal allegations. Some of the channel’s most memorable material was weirder:…
The face of the state: what Qora Mergan accused the President of Power & Influence October 18, 2026 It is easy, reading Qora Mergan today, to become numb to the scale of the allegations. The channel attacked oligarchs,…
A hotel built on muscle: the Uzbekistan sale and the methods behind it Business & State Assets October 17, 2026 If one asset symbolises the opacity of the Mirziyoyev era’s privatisations, it is the Hotel Uzbekistan, the great 1970s concrete…
The financier of hits: what the archive says about Batyr Alyumin’s Bloody CV Investigations October 16, 2026 Among the characters who walk through the Qora Mergan archive, none has proven more consequential for Uzbek politics today than…
Collateral damage: Bobomurod Abdullaev and the cost of being blamed Courts & Justice October 15, 2026 The most consequential error in the hunt for Qora Mergan was made within weeks: the decision to suspect Bobomurod Abdullaev,…
$5 million for a head: the hunt for Qora Mergan’s author Power & Influence October 14, 2026 For a channel that positioned itself as a hunter of the powerful, Qora Mergan’s second act was to become the…
The Tursunovs under fire: Qora Mergan’s war on the President’s in-laws Power & Influence October 13, 2026 Of all the targets in Qora Mergan’s two-month barrage, none received more sustained attention than the Tursunov family. General Batyr…
From the White Office”: the mystery of Qora Mergan Investigations October 12, 2026 In the summer of 2020, while the world was distracted by a pandemic, Uzbekistan acquired one of the strangest characters…
