Russell Zanca — Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Northeastern Illinois University; Co-editor of Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present.

It’s been three years since hundreds of protestors where shot in the streets in Andijan. US protests over the event resulted in the end of US military bases in Uzbekistan.

Now the US and Europe are beginning to patch thing up with the authoritarian regime of Islam Karimov. Russell Zanca is co-editor of Every day Life in Central Asia. He’s an anthropologist from Northeastern University.

U.S assistant secretary of state Richard Boucher just got back from a visit to Uzbekistan where he began the process of patching thing up with Karimov Zanca told Jerome what he thought about the effort.