Uzbek President Islam Karimov on Tuesday...

"Some of the assessments given by people considered good reporters are astonishing, as it is not correct to judge the whole region unambiguously by Kyrgyzstan," Karimov said at a news conference after talks in Moscow with President Dmitry Medvedev.

Karimov, at the end of a two-day official visit to the Russian capital, said the lack of information sometimes made journalists "fill the spaces by themselves." He denounced media reports suggesting the situation in Kyrgyzstan could be repeated in any other Central Asian state.

Medvedev himself suggested last week that events in Kyrgyzstan could be repeated in other former Soviet republics if their leaders followed policies similar to those of ousted Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.

"In relation to the possibility of similar scenarios in ex-Soviet states or other countries - everything is possible in this world, if people are not happy with the authorities, if the authorities do not make efforts to support their

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