The Uzbekis are renaming many streets in their capital Tashkent to simplify them and return old historical names; its also a way to ‘de-Russify’ their past. So ‘Aleksei Tolstoy Street’ has become ‘Oloy Street’ and the area known as ’40 Years of Victory’ has been renamed ‘Tuzel’, which means ‘flat area’. Presumably this was viewed as being less contentious than ’19 Years of Independence’…
