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 ...

Uzbekistan, Russia, Central Asia. Uzbekistan: Return of Soviet hero’s monument revives history debates As in other parts of the former Soviet Union, Uzbekistan has a complicated relationship with the ...

And Uzbekistan has the fourth largest trade turnover with Russia among the former Soviet republics. Russian ambassador to Uzbekistan, Vladimir Tyurdenev, told reporters in Tashkent in December that ...

Russia and Uzbekistan signed an accord on Monday for Moscow to build a small nuclear power plant in the Central Asian country. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) Putin also ...

A new book explores the legacy of an often-overlooked architectural style born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital. Tashkent’s 1974 Hotel Uzbekistan is among the remaining examples of Soviet ...