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Officials in Uzbekistan are playing down expectations that the tightly controlled Central Asian nation will soon abolish exit visas.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyaev has issued a decree calling for the memory of his predecessor Islam Karimov to be "immortalized."
Ukraine has arrested a relative of Uzbekistan's late President Islam Karimov who is wanted by Tashkent for the alleged embezzlement of hundreds of millions of dollars.
In a rare public protest in Uzbekistan, a group of retirees recently took to the streets to demand that their local government drop its newfangled debit-card system and pay their pensions in cash.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyaev has harshly criticized the country's prosecutors, calling on them to treat ordinary citizens and entrepreneurs properly.
A utility provider is billing residents of apartment buildings in one Uzbek city for what it says are unpaid bills from almost two decades ago.
Uzbekistan's new president has granted citizenship to nearly 200 people who were unable to obtain it in the wake of the Soviet Union's collapse 25 years ago.
An influential official who had been seen as the late President Islam Karimov's possible successor has lost his job as finance minister as the Central Asian country's new government takes shape.
Shavkat Mirziyaev has been sworn in as president of Uzbekistan, pledging continuity after the death of longtime autocrat Islam Karimov but also promising a major government reshuffle.
Uzbekistan's dominant Liberal Democratic Party has nominated Abdulla Aripov as prime minister of the Central Asian nation, a position soon to be vacated by President-elect Shavkat Mirziyaev.
Uzbekistan has exonerated its Soviet-era leader Inomjon Usmonhojaev, who was convicted during a high-profile anticorruption campaign known as "the Uzbek case" or "the cotton case" in 1989.
Uzbek President-elect Shavkat Mirziyaev has proposed direct elections for regional governors and city mayors, part of what the first new leader the country has had in more than a quarter-century is portraying as a major push to make officials more accountable to citizens.
Uzbek President-elect Shavkat Mirziyaev has signed a resolution announcing an international competition to erect a monument to his late predecessor Islam Karimov.
Uzbekistan has introduced visa-free travel for citizens from 27 countries.
Jailed Uzbek politician Samandar Qoqonov, who has been behind bars for more than 23 years, has been released from prison, his relatives say.
Uzbek authorities have extended the prison sentence of a jailed Uzbek politician who has already served 23 years behind bars.
Acting Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyaev has proposed an amnesty for prisoners in honor of Constitution Day, which is marked on December 8.
A mother in Uzbekistan lost her baby during childbirth because her doctors were away picking cotton during the country's annual forced-labor harvest season.
Some Muslim clerics in Uzbekistan's mosques have called participation in the country's cotton harvest an "obligation of Uzbek Muslims."
A Finnish neurosurgeon who examined Islam Karimov says the Uzbek president was "brain dead" five days before he was officially pronounced dead -- suggesting the authoritarian ruler was kept on life support while a "power game" was launched over who would succeed him.
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