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A 23-year-old man has been detained for taking part in ethnic unrest and assaulting the regional governor during the recent strife in the troubled Sokh enclave in Uzbekistan's Ferghana Province.
When the Uzbek government recently eased its coronavirus restrictions and allowed wedding parties to be held -- though for just 30 people -- thousands of couples rushed to the registry offices for marriage licenses.
Documentation obtained by RFE/RL shows that Uzbek authorities have paid more than a half-million dollars to a U.S. public-relations firm to run a campaign aimed at lifting an international boycott against Uzbek cotton over the country's use of forced labor to harvest the crop.
Authorities in Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent, have scrapped a controversial plan to merge some neighborhoods of the capital with the surrounding region after protests by residents who would have been pushed outside of the city limits.
A group of residents of the Uzbek capital have protested the government's plan to merge parts of the city with the surrounding region.
Kazakhstan's government has presented a plan to reintroduce lockdown measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus after a sharp rise in infections.
Video obtained by RFE/RL appears to show the governor of Uzbekistan's Ferghana region being pelted with stones while visiting a village where ethnic clashes took place. On June 5, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev headed for the area, an Uzbek exclave within Kyrgyzstan inhabited mainly by ethnic Tajiks.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev is touring the eastern region of Ferghana days after simmering ethnic unrest boiled over again near the region's Sokh exclave within neighboring Kyrgyzstan.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev will visit the eastern region of Ferghana following ethnic clashes near the country's Sokh exclave within Kyrgyzstan's Batken region, Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov says.
Uzbekistan will start installing "smart" gas meters in some 3.5 million homes in July and an investigation by RFE/RL shows the $550 million contract to make the new devices was awarded to a company with no experience making them -- though it does have ties to the powerful Tashkent mayor.
Dozens of people have been injured in the latest clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbek citizens in a disputed border region.
Rafik Saifulin, the former chief of Uzbekistan's presidential military think tank, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of high treason.
Two Uzbek sports journalists have left their positions after criticizing the state-run television channel for its coverage of the aftermath of a devastating dam failure earlier in May that killed at least four people and displaced tens of thousands of others.
Marooned in Russia with no money or income, hundreds of Central Asian migrants are calling on their governments to help them return home. Meanwhile, thousands of people in Central Asia are waiting for the borders to reopen so they can go to Russia to work.
Uzbekistan says it has received from France assets worth $10 million illegally acquired by Gulnara Karimova, the imprisoned elder daughter of late President Islam Karimov.
As Uzbekistan probes the collapse of a major dam, there are public calls for the government to bring to justice those who were in charge of the dam’s construction.
Uzbekistan's Interior Ministry has taken the unusual step of promising to investigate the temporary detainment of two independent journalists while they were covering the aftermath of a dam burst that forced tens of thousands of people from their homes in the Sirdaryo region and neighboring Kazakhstan.
A dam burst in eastern Uzbekistan, leading to massive flooding, large-scale evacuations, and devastated farmland, both in the area and across the border in Kazakhstan. The Sardoba Reservoir dam was finished in 2017. A criminal probe has been launched into possible "official negligence."
A recently built dam in Uzbekistan has burst, sending water rushing toward villages on the floodplain downstream from the Sardoba Reservoir in the eastern region of Sidaryo.
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