{"id":96,"date":"2018-11-12T10:07:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T07:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/?page_id=96"},"modified":"2019-04-18T22:11:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T17:11:51","slug":"kultura","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/kultura\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Culture and social relations in Uzbekistan have an ancient history.\u00a0 \u00a0Among the mass media it should be singled out (over 1300) the National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan, regional television and radio companies, FM radio stations, government newspapers, as well as Internet resources.<\/p>\n<p>Television and radio industry in Uzbekistan received rapid development in connection with the transition to digital technology.<\/p>\n<p>881 publications were published in the country in 2010. Uzbekistan publishes newspapers in Uzbek, Karakalpak (\u201cErkin Karakalpakstan\u201d), Tajik (\u201cOvozi Tozhik\u201d), Kazakh (\u201cNurly Jol\u201d), Russian and other languages. Book publishing is also well developed: the total annual circulation of books published in the republic increased from 8.9 million copies up to 28.5 million copies between 2000\u20132010. However, the distribution of publications among the population is hampered by the fact that the book-selling network has declined after privatization: the number of bookstores in Uzbekistan decreased from 657 to 70 between 1990\u20132010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cultural institutions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creative-Production Association &#8220;Uzbekteatr&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>State institution &#8220;Uzbekconcert&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>General Directorate of the International Music Festival \u201cSharq Taronalari\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Directorate of academic, folk and art groups<\/li>\n<li>Orchestras (symphonic, chamber, folk instruments)<\/li>\n<li>Republican Association &#8220;Uzbekgossirk&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Republican Methodological and Information Center<\/li>\n<li>House of creative youth<\/li>\n<li>Republican Scientific and Methodological Center for Folk Art and Cultural and Educational Work<\/li>\n<li>Main Scientific and Production Department for the Protection and Use of Cultural Heritage Objects<\/li>\n<li>Management of artistic expertise<\/li>\n<li>Republican Fund &#8220;Uzbekmuseum&#8221;, museums of the republic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are about 40 theaters in the Republic, among which are &#8211; the Big Academic State Theatre named Alisher Navoi, the State Academic Russian Drama Theatre of Uzbekistan, the Ilkhom Theatre, there is also a conservatory. The National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan makes a great contribution to art.<\/p>\n<p><strong>State holydays<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oliy Majlis adopted the law on public holydays and declared the following public holydays in 2<sup>nd<\/sup> July 1992:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1<sup>st<\/sup> January \u2013 New Year<\/li>\n<li>14<sup>th<\/sup> January \u2013 Defenders day<\/li>\n<li>8<sup>th<\/sup> March \u2013 International Women\u2019s day<\/li>\n<li>21th March \u2013 Navruz<\/li>\n<li>9<sup>th<\/sup> May \u2013 Day of memory and honors<\/li>\n<li>1<sup>st<\/sup> September \u2013 Independence day<\/li>\n<li>1<sup>st<\/sup> October \u2013 Teacher\u2019s day<\/li>\n<li>8<sup>th<\/sup> December \u2013 Constitution\u2019s Day<\/li>\n<li>Religious holydays Ramadan and Qurban<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All these days except Defender\u2019s day are days off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Uzbek authorities decided to translate the Uzbek language from Cyrillic to Latin in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture and social relations in Uzbekistan have an ancient history.\u00a0 \u00a0Among the mass media it should be singled out (over 1300) the National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan, regional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-96","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest-in-uzbekistan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}