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Uprisings in Uzbekistan 08/01 10:57pm [3]
January 21, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Poughkeepsie Journal: Brian Glynn will spend the next couple of years in Uzbekistan working with the Peace Corps 01/21 10:08pm [1]
January 17, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: COS - India: Tsunami: Capital Times: Uzbekistan RPCV Kelly Bauer assesses tsunami damage in India 01/21 10:07pm [1]
November 4, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: COS - Afghanistan: Service: Kansas State Collegian: After serving in the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan and hearing from a friend who served in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan, John Harty has started to collect shoes for Afghan women and children 01/16 02:24pm [1]
December 9, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: COS - Kazakhstan: The Desert-Mountain Times, Inc.: “Take great care,” warned the Peace Corps Safety and Security officer when she gave me permission to make a three-day sales trip to Tashkent in Uzbekistan 01/01 07:50pm [1]
December 16, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: PCVs in the Field - Uzbekistan: Personal Web Site: Dee Warren's advice on what to pack to bring to Uzbekistan 01/01 07:49pm [1]
December 26, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Older Volunteers: Great Falls Tribune: Gerry Blackman is enjoying living the dream she'd held for nearly 45 years, serving a 27-month Peace Corps stint in the south-central Asian country of Uzbekistan 01/01 03:44pm [1]
November 23, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Internet: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Personal Web Site: Off to the Peace Corps...Uzbekistan! 12/26 12:05pm [1]
November 4, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: COS - Afghanistan: Kansas State Collegian: After serving in the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan and hearing from a friend who served in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan, John Harty has started to collect shoes for Afghan women and children. 11/29 03:21am [1]
November 27, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Older Volunteers: Missourian: Lowell and Laurie Peterson heading for Uzbekistan in Peace Corps 11/29 03:21am [1]
October 25, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan : Tufts Daily: Liz Rodgers says that the traditions surrounding the role of women in Uzbek society differ from American expectations of women 11/06 02:48pm [1]
October 26, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: UZ Report: Uzbekistan Ambassador Purnell met with Peace Corps Volunteers to discuss their work in the region 11/06 02:47pm [1]
September 23, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Health Care: Beverly Citizen: For the past year and a half, Meghan Driscoll has spent much of her time in the Kavola village health clinic in Uzbekistan 10/02 03:29pm [1]
September 2, 2004: Headlines: COS- Uzbekistan: Boston Globe: Peace Corps volunteer Meghan Driscoll is headed back to a rural village in Uzbekistan 09/03 11:38pm [1]
March 1, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Eighth Circuit Courts Library: Our trip was originally planned for a week in Uzbekistan visiting Matt and a week in Turkmenistan visiting our daughter, Megan, a Peace Corps Volunteer who lives in a small village 08/27 06:00pm [1]
April 7, 2003: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: UzReport.com: 48 new US Peace Corps volunteers sworn in Uzbekistan 08/26 05:15pm [1]
February 25, 1997: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Special Interests - Love: Peace Corps Stories: Humor: Salon: Escape from Tashkent 08/29 05:28pm [2]
July 1, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Writing - Uzbekistan: Antioch Review: Chasing the Sea: Lost among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia 07/24 10:14am [1]
July 16, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Business: Greeting Cards: On Milwaukke: Uzbekistan RPCV Monica LeMoine rivals Hallmark with Milwaukee cards 07/21 08:44pm [1]
July 17, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Kansas City Star: Although she had no idea where Uzbekistan was, Laura Paul left Olathe last August for a two-year Peace Corps assignment in Central Asia 05/13 05:57am [2]
June 12, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Older Volunteers: Berkeley Daily Planet: Uzbekistan RPCV Pearl is a Scrabblette 07/03 03:46pm [1]
June 19, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Obituaries: Poetry: Stadler Poetry Center: Uzbekistan RPCV Jim Schultz dies 06/20 05:43pm [1]
March 31, 2004 - Yahoo News: New blast reported in Uzbekistan after two days of attacks 03/31 07:36pm [1]
March 30, 2004 - Uz Report: US Peace Corps holds health fair in Uzbekistan 03/31 07:21pm [1]
February 20, 2004 - Manchester Times: Uzbekistan RPCV William Duncan and his brother display their private collection of tribal artifacts from around the world. 02/23 06:02pm [1]
February 18, 2004 - Peace Corps: Peace Corps Swears In Edward J. Willet as Uzbekistan Country Director 02/18 05:57pm [1]
January 22, 2004 - Chico University: Scott A. Smith served as a Peace Corps volunteer from 1996 to 1998 in Bukhara, Uzbekistan 01/23 07:56pm [1]
January 18, 2004 - The Flint Journal: Ann Walker, 62, gets one of two reactions when friends learn she has joined the Peace Corps and will be spending the next two years in Uzbekistan. 01/21 03:32pm [1]
January 11, 2004 - St. Louis Post Dispatch: Uzbekistan RPCV Jessica Jackson cooks up a nonprofit career 01/12 08:06pm [1]
August 17, 2001 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Jang Lee who died while serving in Uzbekistan in August, 2001 at Age 31 12/31 11:03am [1]
December 16, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Wanderlustress - A Peace Corps Volunteer in Uzbekistan 12/16 10:56am [1]
December 16, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Hilltopper - a Peace Corps Volunteer in Uzbekistan 12/20 03:20am [4]
December 16, 2003 - Personal Web Site: The Peace Corps Journals of Jordan Earl in Uzbekistan 12/16 10:55am [1]
December 16, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Off to the Peace Corps 01/10 10:42pm [2]
May 8, 2002 - Petaluma Press Democrat: Peace Corps Volunteer JP Banks evacuated from Uzbekistan after 911 02/17 01:20am [5]
November 29, 2003 - UzSport.com: Peace Corps helps organize Special Olympics in Uzbekistan 11/30 02:15pm [1]
March 14, 2002 - The Daily Times: Uzbekistan RPCV Salissa Wahlers shares experience with county schools 10/06 12:02pm [1]
September 13, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Welcome to the journal of my adventures as a Peace 09/13 02:00pm [1]
August 14, 2003 - Anoka County Union: Shannon Larson heading to Uzbekistan in Peace Corps 08/14 11:13pm [1]
January 10, 2002 - Riverside Press Enterprise: In aftermath of 911, Peace Corps hopes to reopen its programs in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan 01/12 10:11pm [1]
January 3 - RPCVs of Uzbekistan listserv: Save PC Uzbekistan! 01/03 09:18am [1]
Uzbekistan gave meaning to religious freedom to ex-Peace Corps Voluntee 11/26 10:25am [1]
Assignment: Uzbekistan 11/26 10:09am [1]
Couple's time in Uzbekistan ends 11/12 11:34am [1]
In Uzbekistan many PCVs live with host families, and it is the luck of the draw that determines if the host family is cool or not (fortunately in my case, Christine had a very cool host family). 07/15 09:33am [1]
I served as a Peace Corps volunteer from 1996 to 1998 in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Here are some of my memories of that time. 07/15 09:25am [1]
General Accounting Office Report on the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe 07/07 06:08pm [1]
Peace Corps To Swear-In Twenty New Volunteers in Uzbekistan 07/05 05:26pm [1]
Volunteer listens, joins Peace Corps: He'll teach English, economics in republic of Uzbekistan 07/05 05:25pm [1]
Peace Corps Holiday in Uzbekistan 07/05 05:24pm [1]
Tinchlik Korpusi: Peace Corps in Uzbekistan by Kenley Butler 07/05 05:23pm [1]
Peace Corps Programs in Uzbekistan 07/05 05:22pm [1]
February 15, 2002 - White House Press Release: Peace Corps to return to Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan 02/17 08:52am [1]
February 20, 2002 - Exclusive: Peace Corps Assessment Team to arrive at Uzbekistan 02/21 03:52pm [2]
February 21, 2002 - Exclusive: Updated Story: Peace Corps Assessment Team to arrive at Uzbekistan 02/21 03:52pm [1]
January 29, 2002 - Knoxville News-Sentinel: Volunteer rushed from Uzbekistan 04/09 12:29pm [1]
September 22, 2002 - Washington Post: Central Asian Students See the U.S. -- and Themselves -- in a New Light 10/19 11:24am [1]
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December 6, 2001 - The Park Falls Herald: Uzbekistan RPCV John Smart talks to Senator Feingold about Peace Corps Issues at Senator's listening session 01/12 10:46pm [1]
Jessica Jackson will speak at her alma mater Nov. 27 about her work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uzbekistan 11/26 10:04am [1]
2006.12.04: December 4, 2006: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: United Nations: Speaking Out: The Daily Press: Uzbekistan RPCV John Smart writes: Where do U.S.-UN relations now stand? 01/09 10:40am [1]
2006.10.05: October 5, 2006: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: COS - Kyrgyzstan: Blogs: Nashville Files: Blake at Nashville Files reports: "The Peace Corps was kicked out of Uzbekistan last year because one of the volunteers wrote about a massacre--and the BBC found it and sent it to press and upset the Uzbeks who apparently like to keep their massacres to themselves. So I've decided to stay away from that arena..." 10/29 10:49am [1]
August 22, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Freedom of Speech: Eurasianet: The experiences of Jessica Teicher as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uzbekistan : Part III: Frustration Over Andijan 08/26 08:41am [1]
August 10, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Eurasianet: The experiences of Jessica Teicher as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uzbekistan : Part II: Khorezm: “Where the Weather is Hot, But the Water is Not” 08/16 05:22am [1]
July 26, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Eurasianet: The experiences of Jessica Teicher as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uzbekistan 07/30 09:36pm [1]
July 15, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: NGO's: Fargo Pioneer: Matthew Morrison worked working in the far reaches of Uzbekistan as a Peace Corps worker and more recently for CHF International 07/30 09:29pm [1]
July 4, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Wausau Daily Herald: Kacy Burg would like to return to Uzbekistan some day, if only to finish what she started as a served as a Peace Corps Volunteer 07/04 12:03pm [1]
June 2, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Personal Web Site: PCV Brad writes: Other members of my UZ-18 class went immediately to a new PC country (Mongolia, Moldova, Romania, Azerbaijan, El Salvador), or are waiting like me for a few months in the States for their programs to start (in South Africa, Moldova, Surinam, Ukraine), or they're finished with PC, or they're waiting to see what other options PC can come up with. 07/02 02:00pm [1]
June 27, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Personal Web Site: malwae says: It's been about 3 years for me dealing with PC, starting from application, through service in Uzbekistan, and now home. During that time I have seen a really unsavory Conservatizing of PC. And I mean conservative in the moral majority right wing family values religous right sense, not the fiscal responsibility sense. The **** that went down in Uzbekistan was a truly spectacular demonstration of how an ideology shift in the White House eventually trickles down to organizations like PC. 06/29 11:13am [1]
June 22, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Eurasia Daily Monitor: The debate over an independent investigation of the May massacre in Andijan, Uzbekistan, has left America's ties to Uzbekistan and the future of its base at Karshi Khanabad engulfed by turmoil 06/24 11:20pm [1]
June 13, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Credit Unions: Credit Union Journal: The Filene Research Institute has named Uzbekistan RPCV George A. Hofheimer as its new Director of Research 06/24 11:17pm [1]
June 21, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: ET: Personal Web Site: PCV Jay Chen says: Even more disconcerting is what one of the Uzbekers (Uzbeker being one of the 4 volunteers who joined us in Kazakhstan after the evacuation in Uzbekistan) told me – every one in their class had passed training, which is a complete rarity – but 10 ETed within the first 2 weeks of moving to their sites because the change was so traumatic. 06/24 11:14pm [1]
May 31, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: COS - Kazakstan: Baltimore Sun: Kazakhstan RPCV Joshua Abram says: U.S. should take a stand for freedom in Uzbekistan 07/02 01:54pm [7]
June 8, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Eurasianet : All volunteers, along with the Peace Corps country director, had returned to the United States by June 5, said Barbara Daly, the organization’s press director 06/09 02:07am [1]
June 6, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Peace Corps: Peace Corps Suspends Program in Uzbekistan 06/06 03:56pm [1]
June 6, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Working Definition: Personal Web Site: PCV Matt Barison says: What to do when you you’ve spent three months learning a very foreign culture and then another two actualy working within it? How to say good bye to those people who had taken you in as family and welcomed you as friends? What to make of your experience? Success, failure - Interruped Service - who’s to blame? 06/06 09:11pm [1]
June 3, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Moscow News: “The United States government has received information that terrorist groups are planning attacks, possibly against U.S. interests, in Uzbekistan in the very near future,” says State Department 06/08 11:45am [2]
June 2, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Seattle Post Intelligencer: U.S. has word of potential terrorist attacks in Uzbekistan, possibly against U.S. interests 06/06 09:09pm [2]
June 1, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan : COS - Moldova : Personal Web site: PCV Krista Atchley says: We all arrived at the Tashkent airport at 3:30 am and after almost 4 hours we were all processed and left Uzbekistan 06/06 09:11pm [1]
May 30, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Working Definition: Personal Web Site: PCV Matt Barison says: Due in no small part to recent events in this country, the Uzbek government has decided to not extend our visas. So, we all have to be off of Uzbek soil by the 1st. 06/06 09:10pm [1]
May 29, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan : COS - Moldova : Personal Web site: PCV Krista Atchley says: Well My PC experience is Uz is about to run out. Looks like I will be headed to Moldova next. 05/29 11:37am [1]
May 27, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Personal Web Site: PCV Jennifer Post says: Due to events beyond my control, I will have to leave Uzbekistan on June 1st. This is the day my visa expires and the responsible parties in the Uzbek government have not responded to our renewal efforts. Therefore Peace Corps has begun the process for the departure of the 52 volunteers that remain of Uzbekistan 18. 05/27 06:22pm [1]
May 27, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan : COS - Moldova: Personal Web Site: PCV Krista Atchley says: Well we are definitely leaving, but to where is the question??? Well my one and only option at this point in time is Moldova. 05/27 01:01pm [1]
May 25, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Personal Web Site: PCV Annie Wright says: Came into the office today to hound my Director and various PC staff about the visa situation. Still no word. 05/25 11:23pm [1]
May 25, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Personal Web Site: PCV Krista Atchley says: All UZ 18 volunteers are headed to Tashkent to prepare for leaving Uzbekistan 05/25 04:36pm [1]
May 23, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Personal Web Site: PCV Annie Wright says: Our director has said that if we don't have a visa extension by this week he will have no choice but to withdraw us from Uzbekistan - we simply cannot stay here without visas, it's too dangerous. 05/25 04:35pm [1]
May 22, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Tales from Uzbekistan: PCV Damien Faz says: Peace Corps tells PCVs: There is no intention on our part to close down the Peace Corps program in Uzbekistan 05/25 04:35pm [1]
May 21, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Personal Web Site: PCV Krista Atchley says: It’s an ongoing problem. My visa expires on June 1st. The Peace Corps along with the Ambassador has sent a Diplomatic Note to the ministry of foreign affairs requesting all UZ 18 volunteers receive visas for the next two years. 05/25 04:34pm [1]
May 20, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Tales from Uzbekistan: PCV Damien Faz says: Peace Corps tells PCVs in Uzbekistan: Due to the intense media attention to this event, many reporters have been seeking out PCVs and their communications, especially their blogs, to use as quotes in news stories. 05/25 04:34pm [1]
May 19, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Working Definition: Personal Web Site: PCV Matt Barison says: Peace Corps tells PCVs in Uzbekistan: Volunteers / Trainees must avoid becoming involved in the political affairs of their host country 05/25 04:33pm [1]
May 16, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Personal Web Site: PCV Dee Warren says: Peace Corps told me today that I will not continue my assignment in Andijon, that I can be reassigned to a different location to finish out my last year of service - if I wanted to. And when safety can be assured, I will be able to return to say my farewells...to me, the valley already has. 05/25 04:33pm [1]
May 15, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Tales from Uzbekistan: PCV Damien Faz says: PCVs in Uzbekistan moved out of Andijan and into Tashkent 05/25 04:32pm [1]
May 14, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Personal Web Site: PCV Matt Barison says: I do want to assure you that I am safe in Uzbekistan. Peace Corps keep us up to date on things, and I am able to watch CNN and BBC World regularly 05/25 04:32pm [1]
May 13, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Yahoo: Some 500 people, mostly civilians, are reported to have been killed when troops put down a revolt in the eastern town of Andizhan on May 13. Authorities in the Central Asian country say 173 people, mostly "terrorists," were killed. 06/07 06:39am [1]
April 27, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Personal Web Site: PCV Annie Wright says: I'm moving to (yet another!) site today. This is, of course, due to the fact that my previous site was deemed too dangerous for me to stay in 05/25 04:31pm [1]
April 23, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: PCOL Exclusive: [Update 4/17/2205] Peace Corps Press Office says program in Uzbekistan is fully operational and in very good standing with the Government of Uzbekistan. 04/28 12:33am [2]
April 15, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Cross: Online Journal: [Update 4/15/2005 1850 EST] Journalist Simon James says: The 63 Peace Corps volunteers who came in January have had their visas cancelled and it looks like the corps' days here are numbered. The Peace Corps Press Office informs us that they have not heard anything about this story being true. 04/16 07:12pm [2]
April 15, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Online Journal: Journalist Simon James says: The 63 Peace Corps volunteers who came in January have had their visas cancelled and it looks like the corps' days here are numbered. Peace Corps has no comment. 04/15 06:52pm [2]
April 13, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Chicago Daily Herald: Halfway through her two-year commitment to the Peace Corps, Stacy Greco is happily weathering the daily challenges of life in Tashkent, Uzbekistan 05/25 04:31pm [1]
April 6, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Uz Report: 64 new Peace Corps volunteers were sworn in at the Uzbek National Academic Drama Theatre on 5 April 04/10 12:12am [1]
February 28, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Blogs: Registan: There’s some kind of cosmic law that keeps the large numbers of Peace Corps volunteers in Uzbekistan from blogging. 04/06 07:30pm [1]
February 28, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Personal Web Site: And also from Uzbekistan, the incomparable Dee has a wonderful story about a power outage. She also notes that not only is spring making itself felt, but there are also signs of a thaw in the Peace Corps itself. 04/06 07:29pm [1]
February 27, 2005: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Personal Web Site: Yesterday I agreed to attend an English Club run by my resource teacher (the guy whose class I’m teaching in for these first 3 months.) I went with two other volunteers and we sat in the front of the classroom fielding questions. 04/06 07:28pm [1]
December 16, 2004: Headlines: COS - Uzbekistan: Blogs - Uzbekistan: Packing - Uzbekistan: Personal Web Site: Peace Corps Packing… for those who are coming with UZ19 in January 02/09 09:47am [1]