UNESCO Office in Tashkent and LEGATE Law Firm, continuing the tradition of cooperation in publishing the annual desktop calendar, joined forces to create a calendar for 2020, the theme of which was the national folk (or traditional) games in Uzbekistan.
Traditional types of games, reflecting the characteristics of a national character, fortitude, folk wit, have an important educational and cognitive value and, along with rituals, traditions, folk songs and dances, characterize certain stages of the history of the people.
The UNESCO Office in Tashkent, as a field office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the only UN agency responsible for the protection of cultural heritage, promotes the development of all issues related to the concept of intangible cultural heritage in Uzbekistan, a country known throughout the world for the richness of it history. Its turn, LEGATE Law Firm, as previously, is willingly contributing to the safeguarding of the uniqueness of the Uzbek people, expresses through traditional games, which were distributed in the territory of modern Uzbekistan.
We hope that our calendar will attract attention and arouse interest in the history of the Uzbek people. Many Uzbeks will make remember the games that they were told about or played in childhood, dipping them into pleasant memories of the past, through which you can get an idea of the customs, culture, values and identity of the Uzbek people.
The amendments to Uzbekistan's legislation, which introduced the concept of "Abuse of Law" into the Tax Code, are currently causing many questions and ambiguous interpretations. In accordance with Article 14 of the Tax Code of Uzbekistan: if a taxpayer performs operations or a series of operations, the sole or primary purpose of which is to obtain an unjustified tax benefit in the form of non-payment or reduction of taxes owed, such actions are considered an abuse of rights for the purposes of this Code.
"Never say that you know a person if you have not divided an inheritance with them" (Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss writer, poet, and philosopher). Time has accelerated its pace: years pass by like days, and days fly by so quickly that you hardly notice them. Everything around us is changing rapidly, but the human desire to live in happiness and prosperity has remained unchanged throughout the centuries. Confidence in the future, the belief that what has been earned and accumulated will “serve” children, and possibly grandchildren, is also an understandable human desire. What opportunities does the law provide for the realization of all of the above? Naturally, we are talking about inheritance law. In Uzbekistan, expressing one's will by leaving orders regarding one's property in case of death is not as popular as, for example, in European countries. Perhaps, the reason lies in the traditional patriarchal way of life, habitual for the people, where the word of a man - the head of the family - has supreme power and does not require legal formalization.
