Uzbekistan has been one of the most enigmatic of the thirty-plus economies in transition from central planning during the 1990s. The government explicitly avoided the shock therapy advocated by the international financial institutions and also avoided the economic collapse of non-reformers such as Belarus or Turkmenistan. Its economic performance, measured by change in real GDP between 1989 and...

Macropsis milkoi Tishetshkin sp. n. from West Tien Shan, Alay and Hissar-Darvaz Mts. (Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) and Macropsis anufrievi Tishetshkin sp. n. from Hissar-Darvaz Mts. (Tajikistan) are described. M. elaeagni Emelyanov, 1964 = M. cyanescens Dubovskiy, 1966 syn. n. is redescribed and illustrated based on the material from Central Asia. Annotated check list and key to 30 Macropsis spec...

the carabid beetle pterostichus (phonias) strenuus (panzer) is newly recorded from iran. it was collected by hand from ghaleroudkhan forests in the caspian province of guilan. this carabid beetle is widely distributed throughout the palaearctic region including europe, uzbekistan, kazakhstan and russian far east.

The article is devoted to the activities of congresses people's representatives All-Bakhara. Along with formation Bukhara People's Soviet Republic and establishment state power in it, these were great importance solving current issues socio-economic cultural life republic 1920-1924. describes on basis materials periodical press.