From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to capture the “radical social surgery” enacted by the Bolsheviks that forever ...

Central Asia has been a bellwether of the Sino-Russian relationship. Russia accounts for almost all of Kazakhstan’s imported ...

Central Asia, particularly Uzbekistan, deserves more attention from America and the West. In the face of the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine and great power competition with China, the United ...

The death of Islam Karimov, the 78-year old party boss and dictatorial president of Soviet and post-Soviet Uzbekistan, a key strategic power in Central Asia, was announced September 2 in official ...

Uzbekistan seems keen to buy Russian gas, as, unlike Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, it only has modest gas deposits and now cannot even cover its domestic needs with its own resources.

Uzbekistan’s prosecutor general has urged media to reply only on official sources of information in relation to the recent assassination attempt. The problem is, officially, very little has been ...

Russian gas giant Gazprom has committed to supply 2.8 Bcm per annum of gas to Uzbekistan, maintaining the winter delivery rate of at least 9 million cubic metres per day. Related ...

The former Soviet republic is teeming with brutalist, orientalist, modernist, futurist and neoclassical buildings — and has ambitious plans for new architectural landmarks.

Hotel Uzbekistan (1974), perhaps Tashkent’s most famous Soviet building designed by Ilya Merport, is also up for consideration, and so is the Uzbekistan State Circus by Genrikh Aleksandrovich ...

Uzbekistan’s Gen Z is tired of the Russian language’s privileged status in the country. According to government statistics, approximately 2.1 percent of the country’s 37.5 million people are ...