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Article: Quiet crusader: Natasha Shulepina: Eric Walberg profiles a journalist fighting on the frontiers of media freedom in Uzbekistan.
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- New Internationalist
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- September 1, 1999
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NATASHA Shulepina was born with journalism in her blood. A dynamic, upbeat Russian, single and energetic, she is on almost all counts an anomaly in this highly traditional society-a society that is 80 per cent Uzbek and Muslim. She works for the paper Pravda Vostoka (Truth of the East), where her beat is economic, health, environmental and social matters. She is a thorn in the side of the authorities yet was awarded last year's government-sponsered Shuhrat (renown) award. Natasha has a friendly and open face and is a careful listener, putting you immediately at ease. When she speaks her words flow quickly and passionately, leaving you groping to follow the carefully ...