Viktor Pak, of Korean descent, doesn't remember his parents well — they passed away when he was just two months old. His family story is rooted in a difficult past. In the 1930s, during Stalin's mass ...

TASHKENT (Reuters) - A military court in Uzbekistan sentenced 10 defendants to lengthy prison terms for the attempted murder of the former presidential press secretary, the country's supreme court ...

Upon arriving in the freezing capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, my priorities were to get a local SIM card and book a cab to my hotel — tasks I assumed would be straightforward. Little did I know that ...

An estimated 55,000 people in the United States identified as Uzbek in 2023, according to estimates published by the U.S. Census Bureau. 1 Uzbek Americans are the 18th-largest Asian origin population ...

Uzbek Muslims held mass prayers for rain Friday as the Central Asian country suffers severe droughts associated with climate ...

Ten years ago, on a day that changed his life forever, Ahror Rahmedov went to a wedding in Tashkent, the Uzbekistan city where he was a medical student. Someone fired a rocket gun to celebrate the ...

Five years just was not enough. After being elected in a landslide in the fall of 2021 to a second five-year term, just two years later, the president of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev decided to ...

Quick on the heels of Uzbekistan’s constitutional referendum, President Shavkat Mirzoyoyev announced on May 8 that the country would hold an early presidential election on July 9. Mirziyoyev, in his ...

Humans regard the arrest and continued detention of Bekhzod Botirov as the latest chapter in a broader pressure campaign ...