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“Contemporary Uzbekistan is not bygone Uzbekistan”
Well-known orientalists supported the initiatives laid down in the Address of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the Oliy Majlis. In their comments, they focused on such initiatives as the global reform of child and youth policy, improving the quality and accessibility of education, developing science and, of course, preserving the country’s cultural legacy.
Member of the Board of the World Society for the Study, Preservation and Popularization of the Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan, professor, doctor of historical sciences, director of the Saint Petersburg Museum of Islamic Culture, head of the academic direction of the MAE RAS (Russia), Efim Rezvan noted the high humanistic significance of the initiatives of the head of Uzbekistan:
This phrase “Contemporary Uzbekistan is not bygone Uzbekistan” from the address of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the Oliy Majlis is well understood by everyone who often comes to the hospitable Uzbek land. The results of the reforms aimed at building a new Uzbekistan are visible everywhere today. There is no doubt that it is the results of these reforms that have allowed Uzbekistan to be among the very few countries in the world today that have managed to maintain positive rates of economic growth, despite the difficult trials of the previous year.
One cannot but pay attention to the social orientation of the President’s message, to a set of measures designed to undoubtedly increase the efficiency, transparency, concreteness, and execution of the decisions made, to the obvious growth of the influence of civil society, to the creation and all-round development of tools and institutions of such influence, youth policy (investment in the future!), for the widespread growth of the role of science and innovation. As we know, we are talking about the formation of the foundation of a new Renaissance in a country that gave the world a galaxy of outstanding scientists, philosophers, poets ...For me, a person who has devoted his life to the study of Islamic culture, it is this part of the President’s message that is of the greatest importance. In this regard, it is gratifying to hear about the plans to create a new modern university in Tashkent, about the opening of the International Institute of Central Asia.
Today, the open, pragmatic and constructive foreign policy of Uzbekistan commands respect throughout the world. The President has undoubtedly set very ambitious tasks for the country. But the experience gained by the country in recent years instills confidence that the multinational Uzbek people will meet the 30th anniversary of the state independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan with new achievements.
The centuries-old history and the richest culture of Uzbekistan have always aroused and still arouses great interest in Russia today. Next year will mark the 80th anniversary of a series of academic events dedicated to the 500th anniversary of Alisher Navoi in the besieged, hungry and cold Leningrad. The largest Russian orientalists lived and worked in the city on the Neva at that time. On December 10 and 12, 1941, the Navoi Readings took place in the Hermitage. An academic session held on December 29 at the Institute of Oriental Studies was dedicated to the great poet.
Opening the meeting in the Hermitage, Academician Orbeli said: “In an unusual time experienced by our city and our whole country, we gathered in an incredible atmosphere to mark a significant date in the cultural life of all our peoples, to remember the name of the great poet and educator Alisher Navoi, who has remained immortal. The mere fact of honoring the poet in a city besieged, doomed to suffer hunger and cold, in a city that the enemies consider already dead and bloodless, once again testifies to the courageous spirit of the people, their unbroken will, the eternally living humane heart of science ... " ...
The artillery bombardment that began interrupted Orbeli’s speech, the air shuddered, windows rattled, an explosion on the Neva, very close, threw up a column of icy water into the sky, but those who came refused to go down to the bomb shelter.... It is very important for me and my colleagues that the coming year will allow us, despite all the obvious difficulties, to continue working together with our Uzbek colleagues on a whole series of interesting academic and, God willing, cultural and exhibition projects.
