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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Between 1925 and 1949, photographer Max Penson documented life in Soviet Uzbekistan. 2 Max Penson sits for a self portrait. The photographer was born in what is today Belarus in 1893, but fled ...

When observing Amir Timur’s statue, one can see the Soviet modernist architecture in the periphery. This came in the form of the Soviet luxury hotel — Hotel Uzbekistan. Such symbolic contradictions ...

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

Islam Karimov, leader of ex-Soviet Uzbekistan, won 88.1 percent of the vote in a weekend presidential election in the Central Asian state, according to preliminary results announced on Monday.

KIPNIS: But in Uzbekistan, the Soviet legacy still has a strong grip over the region. (SOUNDBITE OF WATER GENTLY SPLASHING) KIPNIS: And this time, what's at stake is the region's last remaining ...

In Uzbekistan, a Soviet Perspective on Media Lingers By Catherine Putz. Uzbekistan’s prosecutor general has urged media to reply only on official sources of information in relation to the recent ...

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 ...