Then Gulnara Karimova blocked Romanenko and, despite his protests, she has not resumed the dialogue with him as she is likely to have been alerted by the topic.

	A screenshot of Gulnara’s twitter messages

19.09.12 07:09

Uzbek president’s daughter ponders on MTS

Gulnara Karimova, the Uzbek president’s elder daughter, remains in Tashkent, according to her Twitter account, and keeps herself busy with thoughts about MTS, the Style.uz Art Week and freedom of speech.

One of the “followers” of Gulnara Karimova on Twitter, Roman Romanenko, on 16 September wrote to her that he “knows all the truth about the MTS director”.

In response to this, she said: “tell this to Yevtushenkov..it will be more interesting to him..or numerous shareholders of the listed company MTS!)” (original punctuation retained throughout)

Then Gulnara blocked Romanenko and, despite his protests, she has not resumed the dialogue with him as she is likely to have been alerted by the topic.

“Why did you block me did you decide to conceal the truth?)” Romanenko wondered (original word order retained).

Yevtushenkov as a stick in one’s throat

The name of Russian tycoon Vladimir Yevtushenkov has recently been often mentioned in the press in the light of the closure of the Uzdunrobita mobile company, a 100% subsidiary of the Russian telecom giant MTS in Uzbekistan.

The head of the Sistema corporation, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, is a shareholder of MTS and, according to independent sources, he has managed to take revenge against Karimova thanks to his connections in Switzerland.

According to unofficial statements by MTS officials in Moscow, Karimova is behind the seizure of the Russian mobile business in Uzbekistan.

They have not confirmed that the situation surrounding Uzdunrobita is linked to the high-profile arrests of two Uzbeks in Switzerland on 30 July and the fact that Karimova has stayed too long in Tashkent and can no longer live a relaxed life in Switzerland near her vast fortune kept in Swiss banks.

On 30 July, staff members

	Romanenko asks Karimova why she has blocked him

of the Coca-Cola Uzbekistan company were arrested in the Lombard Odier bank in Geneva in a money laundering case brought against four Uzbek citizens.

Independent sources said that the detainees were in charge of controlling large amounts of money in accounts and safe deposit boxes of Gulnara.

This is confirmed indirectly by the fact that rallies held outside the Swiss embassy on 4 and 6 August in Tashkent were authorised, a rare case in Uzbekistan, during which a group of well-off women defamed the Swiss justice and demanded protection for the rights of Muslims.

Gulnara’s posts on Twitter that mentioned MTS and Yevtushenkov are her first remarks with regard to the latest events surrounding the Russian company.

Why did she mention Yevtushenkov and why does she care about this man?

An independent expert from Uzbekistan says that “with her posts, Karimova wants to say that attacks on MTS were a right thing and tycoon Yevtushenkov, who is angry with her, should know about this”.

“But she did not want to expand this topic further, fearing to say too much, and blocked her follower,” he continues.

Stuck to Internet

Gulnara Karimova’s constant socialising on Twitter points to the fact that the Uzbek envoy to the UN in Geneva and Spain has a lot of free time, and diplomatic issues have nothing to do with her.

She leaves tens of posts on Twitter every day. Many of her posts are sublime and refined in the most poetic way. She writes, for example, about changing weather or the time of year.

In response to many compliments and supportive words that all criticism is levelled against her by purely jealous and mediocre people, she modestly says thank you.

But sometimes she writes more prosaically, for instance: “It is impossible to stick a finger in the arse and then try to pull it out clean.” – You have cool experience!!!)”

On rare occasions, she also receives subtle questions which she rules out and flatly denies.

Some Alisher complained that it was difficult to cover the Style.uz Art Week: “As a journalist I do not have anyone to interview. Is everyone afraid of something? Terrible.”

In response to this, Karimova angrily says: “NO-ONE, even from among foreign journalists who have no idea about Uzbekistan, has ever said this!!!Nonsense!There are so many good and bad interviews that they make me sick sometimes!!!This happened but it is first time when there was nothing or anyone to cover!And what are you looking for there??))”

Reading a string of posts left by GooGoosha, one realises that she is right: it is impossible to stick a finger in one place and have it clean because the train of what she herself and her father Islam Karimov have done in the 23-year-long rule in the country will always be with them.

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