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"In theory the combination of state control and limited access to the net should have barred Uzbekistan’s way to latest reports about the brewing revolt in the country, increasingly available in Uzbek & Russian online. But as report Daniil Kislov and Andrei Kudriashov, partners in Index on Censorship’s 2004 Ferghana Valley projects, that would be seriously underestimating the Uzbeks' desire for information... The popularity of the Internet as an unofficial source of information is growing. You often hear ordinary citizens – people who don’t know how to use a computer, the people buying and selling in the bazaars, taxi-drivers – passing on news that someone has picked up on the Internet." from Index for Free Expression, May 19, 2005