I'M HELPING UZBEKISTAN OPEN UP TO WORLD

I am ready to help Uzbekistan in any way possible and I am already helping, Usmanov told Reuters in a telephone interview... READ MORE›

CENTRAL ASIAN GROUP PRAISES ACHIEVEMENTS OF CPC

Song invited parties from Central Asian countries to actively push the Belt and Road Initiative and together build a community of a shared destiny... READ MORE›

TIME TO BOOST LINKS LI TELLS 3 LEADERS

While meeting with Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, Li said China will work with Uzbekistan to advance projects of production capacity cooperation and connectivity... READ MORE›

EU AND IRAN DEFEND NUCLEAR DEAL, UNDER FIRE FROM TRUMP

The nuclear deal was a major achievement of European and international multilateral diplomacy, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told a conference in Uzbekistan... READ MORE›

IS CENTRAL ASIA A 'HOTBED FOR EXTREMISM'?

As evidence, many cited a string of recent attacks carried out by individuals of Central Asian origin in Istanbul, Saint Petersburg and Stockholm... READ MORE›

WHY UZBEKS BECAME A KEY FIGHTING FORCE FOR IS GROUP

Experts say Central Asians, and Uzbeks in particular, are a prominent fighting force in the militant group's jihad... READ MORE›

KYRGYZSTAN VOTES FOR NEW PRESIDENT IN HISTORIC ELECTION

Voters in the central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan are choosing a new president in an election that is unusual for the region because it is unpredictable... READ MORE›

19 KILLED IN RUSSIA AFTER TRAIN HITS BUS STUCK ON CROSSING

Uzbekistan's Foreign Ministry says 19 citizens of the former Soviet nation were killed when a train slammed into a bus carrying them near Moscow... READ MORE›

BUS CRASH AT RAILWAY CROSSING KILLS 16 IN RUSSIA

Russian media report that the bus engine may have stalled after the driver ignored a red warning signal... READ MORE›

ARE DECADES OF POLITICAL REPRESSION MAKING WAY FOR AN 'UZBEK SPRING'?

Startling words since, under Karimov, Uzbekistan became a byword for despotism, torture and worse... READ MORE›

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HOW THE USSR'S EFFORT TO DESTROY ISLAM CREATED A GENERATION OF RADICALS

They did, and by the '70s Islam had made a comeback in much of Central Asia... READ MORE›

CARGO TRAIN ROLLS OUT BETWEEN EAST CHINA, KAZAKHSTAN[1]

A cargo train between Ganzhou, East China's Jiangxi province, and Kazakhstan starts its journey on July 27, 2017... READ MORE›

CARGO TRAIN ROLLS OUT BETWEEN EAST CHINA, KAZAKHSTAN[1]

A cargo train between Ganzhou, East China's Jiangxi province, and Kazakhstan starts its journey on July 27, 2017... READ MORE›

DRUGS MULE MICHAELLA MCCOLLUM RETURNS TO IBIZA AND THE SCENE OF THE CRIME

The move will make the SCO one of the biggest regional organizations, covering about half of the world's population... READ MORE›

'DEMOCRACY WAS HIJACKED. IT GOT A BAD NAME'

The town of Sokh, for example, is part of Uzbekistan, but fully surrounded by Kyrgyzstan, and its 20,000 population are almost entirely ethnic Tajiks... READ MORE›

ISLAM KARIMOV DIES AT 78 ENDING A LONG RUTHLESS RULE OF UZBEKISTAN

MOSCOW -- Islam Karimov, a ruthless autocrat who ruled Uzbekistan for almost three decades, died on Friday in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent... READ MORE›

The Aral Sea has been retreating over the last half-century since a massive Soviet irrigation project diverted water from the rivers that fed it into farmland... READ MORE›

UZBEKISTAN TO HOLD PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ON DECEMBER 4

Uzbekistan will elect a new president on December 4 following the death of long-time leader Islam Karimov, Reuters news agency reported... READ MORE›

CENTRAL ASIA'S DICTATORS FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH TRUMP

In 2012, the Kremlin put pressure on Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambaev that eventually forced the United States to close its air force base in the country... READ MORE›

UZBEKS VOTE ON EXPECTED 4TH TERM FOR AUTHORITARIAN

Mr. Karimov has led impoverished, landlocked Uzbekistan since it was still part of the Soviet Union and has used his 26 years in power to eliminate all opposition and even criticism... READ MORE›

ISLAM KARIMOV, UZBEKISTAN STRONGMAN WHO EXPLOITED ANTI-TERROR FIGHT, DIES AT 78

President George W. Bush, right, meets with the president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, in the Oval Office at the White House in 2002... READ MORE›

STOCKHOLM ATTACK SUSPECT IS UZBEK DENIED RESIDENCY IN SWEDEN

Appears to be listed as living at another address in the northern Stockholm suburb of Hjulsta... READ MORE›

WORLD MOURNS DEATHS OF 224 PEOPLE KILLED IN RUSSIAN PLANE CRASH

Airport authorities said all 224 people aboard Metrojet Flight 7K9268 en route from the resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh were Russian, the Russian news agency RIA reports... READ MORE›

VIDEO POST REPORTER EJECTED FROM KERRY MEETING WITH UZBEKS

Secretary of State John Kerry was meeting Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, after she asked a question about the U.S... READ MORE›

TURKEY IDENTIFIES NATIONALITIES OF AIRPORT BOMBERS

But an enduring question was why the militant group chose not to send its Russian-speaking fighters on such missions... READ MORE›

FEARS FOR LEGENDARY SAVITSKY ART COLLECTION AFTER DISMISSAL OF MUSEUM DIRECTOR

The Savitsky Karakalpakstan art museum holds about 90 000 artworks paintings from the 1920s and 1930s along with archaeological finds and examples of Karakalpak folk art... READ MORE›

WORLD BANK FUNDS LINKED TO FORCED LABOUR IN UZBEKISTAN

The World Bank is accused of funding agricultural projects in Uzbekistan that are linked to state-sponsored child labour and forced labour in the cotton industry... READ MORE›

PUTIN ENCOURAGES IRAN TO JOIN RUSSIA-LED EURASIAN ALLIANCE

In some branches of the economy Russian-Iranian cooperation has already become strategic, Putin noted... READ MORE›

HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DISMAY AS UZBEKISTAN AUTOCRAT CLINGS TO POWER

Among human rights activists and political dissidents, the gnashing of teeth has already begun... READ MORE›

UZBEKISTAN HOLDS ITS BREATH OVER FUTURE AS PRESIDENT ISLAM KARIMOV IS BURIED

President Vladimir Putin called Karimov's death a heavy loss for the people of Uzbekistan ... READ MORE›

KERRY TIES UZBEKISTANS HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD TO COOPERATION ON MANY FRONTS

Sanctions imposed in 2004 over human rights abuses were waived by the White House that year in recognition of Uzbekistan's supporting role in the war in Afghanistan... READ MORE›

MIRZIYOYEV SCORES LANDSLIDE WIN IN PRESIDENTIAL POLL

Uzbekistan's acting President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has won a tightly controlled presidential election following the death of longtime ruler Islam Karimov... READ MORE›

TAJIKISTAN EUROPEAN GROUP REBUKES GOVERNMENT OVER CRACKDOWN ON OPPOSITION PARTY

Tajik authorities banned the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan this week with a local court labeling it a terrorist organization... READ MORE›

UZBEK PRESIDENT'S DEATH PUTS A NEW SPOTLIGHT ON THE STRANGE STORY OF THE COUNTRY'S 'JAILED PRINCESS'

Within only six years, Karimova went from being Uzbekistan's deputy foreign affairs minister to the reputed owner of the country's largest conglomerate... READ MORE›

CENTRAL ASIA LINK TO ST PETERSBURG BOMB IS WORRYING SIGN FOR KREMLIN

Hundreds, if not thousands, of people from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan are believed to be fighting with Isis... READ MORE›

THE STATE MUSEUM OF ARTS IN TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN

In Postcards from Uzbekistan this week we visit the State Museum of Arts in the capital Tashkent... READ MORE›

ISLAM KARIMOV RE-ELECTED UZBEKISTAN'S PRESIDENT IN PREDICTED LANDSLIDE

08 BST Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan's authoritarian president since 1990, has won re-election in a predictable landslide victory that will put him in office for another five years... READ MORE›

KYRGYZSTAN AND UZBEKISTAN TURN TO CIVILIAN MILITIAS TO SECURE BORDERS

Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan turn to civilian militias to secure borders Central Asian countries are looking to volunteers to help strengthen security along ill-defined frontiers... READ MORE›

NEW RUSSIAN MIGRATION LAW BOOSTS ISLAMIC STATE RECRUITMENT IN TAJIKISTAN

Bobonazarova likened Tajikistan's dependence on the Russian market to a hostage situation ... READ MORE›

STOCKHOLM ATTACK SUSPECT WAS ISIS RECRUIT UZBEK OFFICIAL SAYS

Mr. Kamilov said that Mr. Akilov was born in 1978 in Samarkand, in central Uzbekistan... READ MORE›