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Uzbekistan and Russia slapped down the bigmouth - who represented neither.(From an Usbeki paper)

http://www.tashkenttimes.uz/national/12247-prilepin-s-opinion-does-not-even-remotely-reflect-the-official-position-of-the-russian-federation-russian-foreign-ministry

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Another story in same publication:

US authorities returned 119 Uzbek nationals who illegally entered the country back to Uzbekistan, the UzReport TV reported, which met the arriving Uzbek citizens at the Tashkent airport. The footage was posted on the Telegram channel of the Agency for External Labor Migration.

Reportedly, most of them tried to get to the United States through Mexico.

One of those who arrived said that he went to the USA to earn money. Together with a friend, they wanted to get a job as loaders in a store and earn 10-12 thousand dollars a month.

The man said that he arrived in the United States on September 3 and since then he was detained for 110 days. He complained that he was “not given bread, because they don’t eat bread there very often, and the food is boiled, not fried.”

SOmehting got lost in translation....