There was news about the city. It was hard to read
We live in Tashkent and read about it the way everyone does: a hundred messages a day across twenty channels. Three of them are actually ours. Event listings are scattered across platforms. Only realtors know apartment prices. The city's master plan to 2045 is a 40-megabyte PDF in Uzbek that almost none of the people whose homes it describes have ever opened.
The information about the city exists. What's missing is a way to get it in five minutes in the morning instead of a whole day.
We wanted to reverse the direction: not the resident going after the city, but the city coming to the resident. Morning and evening, briefly, in their language. That's how the TashkentToday newspaper was born. On September 1 it goes public — consider this day its birthday.
What the newspaper can already do today
This is a working system; we test it on ourselves every day:
- Two editions a day in three languages. Morning and evening, in Russian, Uzbek and English. No duplicates: one event — one news item.
- City listings. More than 60 events: concerts, exhibitions, films with a short review, events for kids.
- A 13-layer city map — ttoday.uz/maps/: food, healthcare, schools, metro, filling stations by fuel type, residents' complaints.
- Classifieds board — ttoday.uz/doska/: more than 4,000 listings — tradespeople, services, real estate.
- A breakdown for any address. The /adres command in the bot: what the master plan to 2045 will build nearby, what's within a ten-minute walk, what apartments cost in the area.
- A database of 15,000 places — from pharmacies to ice rinks, with addresses and opening hours.
A separate piece of work we're proud of: 7,577 zones of Tashkent's master plan have been translated from Uzbek. Until now, the regulatory part of the plan by which the city is being rebuilt existed in only one language.
The newsroom is AI, and we don't hide it
The newspaper is made by Mila Tashkent, a MILAGPT digital employee. She gathers the news, filters out duplicates, translates, lays out the editions, answers in the bot and maintains the map. People set the rules, keep an eye on things and make corrections — the editorial policy was written by the owner, not by an algorithm.
Ask the bot "who are you" and it will tell you straight that you're talking to AI and who is responsible for its work. We believe readers have the right to know this from the very first line.
The newspaper is our product at work
MILAGPT sells digital employees. Words are cheap here, so we show the work: TashkentToday is a digital employee anyone can check every day. Open the morning edition, ask the bot about your neighbourhood, find a tradesperson on the board.
The Mila who runs the newspaper is the same Mila you can get for yourself: a personal assistant for city residents for 3,300 sum a day. The newspaper is free and will stay free — it's our showcase and our gift to the city.
Subscribe — the next edition is tomorrow morning
Three channels, three languages. Choose yours:
@TashkentSegodniain Russian · morning and evening editions @ToshkentBugunNewsoʻzbekcha · ertalabki va kechki sonlar @TashkentTodayNewsin English · morning and evening editionsThe city — in one bot
Listings, the map, the board, a breakdown for your address and news on your topics — all in @toshkenttoday_bot. The first conversation is free.