Many thanks for all the very kind messages. I appear to be back on full fighting form again and will resume blogging shortly.
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Great news and have a swift recovery Craig!
Great news!
Great news! Relax and enjoy the sun!
Much to the chagrin of the plutocrats, oligarchs, and the coattail hangers thereof, you have made it and comeback. Glad to hear you are OK. Wish you a full recovery and good health.
Get well soon n all that!
Glad you’re OK and thanks for letting us know.
Excellent news Craig. You have been sorely missed.
(btw in the replay of Murder in Samarkand on Radio 4 Extra, I was reminded that you had an injury to your calf muscle when you were in Tashkent. Hope that it never recurred.)
Excellent – hope you recover quickly and this treatment really does fix whatever the problem was.
Glad you are back, and I hope we have a discussion about the Anglo-American disposition matrix in all its ramifications.
Glad you are back Mr Murray. Take good care of yourself.
Congrats!! I’m looking forward to it as I am sure are many others.
While you were away:
It is reported that diplomatic immunity was removed from Gulnara Karimova by Uzbek Foreign Affairs Ministry. This is something that puzzled many as this would not have happen without authorisation from her father.
Well done, Craig. You’ve passed the first test of survival – ie not dying. Don’t worry about the blog, I’ve found a backdoor in your system that allows me to delete posts as if by Jon.
Thanks, Jemand. That explains it.
Excellent news.
Noli spurios te contundere!
Oh good. I’d only just blundered in here and I was beginning to enjoy it in an indignant kind of way.
Good to have you back in circulation again. Take time to recover fully.
Uzbek:
Her immunity comes with the job she’s just been removed from:
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/67246
I’d guess she was kicked out by / at the request of the UN, rather than her old man.
Moral, perhaps – whoever else you rip off, don’t screw with Russians?
Analysis of Karimova’s possible fall from grace:
http://atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-170613.html
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Alhamdulillah.
Quite poor censoring, Jon, as Jemand said it allows him to delete posts as if he were you – something he has apparently done – not that he was just wishing to do so.
Trowbridge, in retrospect I probably didn’t need to remove your comment, but it’s worth noting that Cracker Jemand was joking 🙂
Good to have you back, Craig.
Glad to hear you are recovering well, Craig! 🙂
Quick question: have you ever come across a state which runs a consulate at its own airport?
That’s what Russia does at Sheremetevo airport in Moscow.
Some actions are not to be joked about, like the names of the Asiana pilots involved in the crash at SFO.
Don’t rush it… get better properly before you throw yourself back into your hectic life.
A good day just got even better!
Great to hear you’re on the way back to us Craig. I’ve missed your observations and can’t wait to see you posting again.
But be sure to take it easy, let the healing take root and enjoy good company.
No danger of us all falling silent in the meantime.
What a stretch Trowbridge. If the pilots had been able to stretch even fractionally to yours, it would’ve been an ordinary smooth landing.
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Health is everything Craig. One takes it for granted until one becomes ill. But then in recovery a new inner intelligence of listening to one’s body can come into being. Stay well now.
I’m starting my own new stage of a health-kick at 7am tomorrow. Famous last words.
sorry to hear you havent been so well. You were certainly on good form at the Musselburgh meeting. Hope its one of many still to come.
I am afraid this could be more serious than ‘not screwing Russians’. Gulnara has many powerful opponents inside Uzbekistan but they were dormant until quite recently. It is rumoured that Gulnara and her father have different views on succession (of her father). She wants to be become next on his throne whereas he (quite rightfully) understands that her power comes with his presidency and on her own she will face many challenges and will ultimately fail to preserve balance of power in clan politics.