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Uzbekistan: People
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For many, Uzbekistan is a land of legend. Its topography is a complex of great, stoney mountains, vast, sandy deserts, fertile, emerald river valleys and oases, which have traditionally divided the peoples dwelling there between sedentary farmers, craftsmen and merchants and nomadic herdsmen.
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TASHKENT--In the markets, on the streets, even in the privacy of their homes or cars, the people of Uzbekistan are sphinxlike. They think things are going...well, as best as could be expected. Not good...but not bad. They are canny traders of information, offering little, but quickly asking, "And what do you think about Uzbekistan?" and then listening with neither expression nor comment. They shake their heads in sympathy for the September 11 victims.
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Most people in Uzbekistan speak a language called Uzbek, it is a Turkic language similar to Uyghur and Turkish. In the Uzbek language, Uzbekistan is called "O‘zbekiston" and it means "the land of the true nobles".
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In any case, after seventy years of Soviet rule the people of Uzbekistan are thoroughly secular in their daily lives. Men drink vodka, women only start wearing headscarves when they marry, and few young people attend mosques. True, many Uzbeks revere imams and the holy Qur’an (even if they cannot read it. But there is no evidence to suggest that, given a real choice, they would follow the “Islamists” and their agenda against a secular democratic alternative.
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Kurash is an ancient type of upright jacket grappling which originated on the territory of modern Uzbekistan. According to the latest scientific research the age of Kurash is at least three and a half thousand years. Kurash is one of the oldest martial arts the people had ever practiced.....
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According to data from the Republican AIDS Centre, of the more than 5600 people officially registered in Uzbekistan as living with HIV, 56% are in the age group 15 - 30. Major factors driving the epidemic include unsafe practices and high-risk behavior among young injecting drug users and their sexual partners, who constitute a significantly high proportion of the HIV cases in Uzbeksitan.
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