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Two close associates of Uzbek President Islam Karimov's eldest daughter, Gulnara Karimova, have reportedly been sentenced on money-laundering and forgery charges, among others.
Some 40 officers serving in Uzbekistan's National Security Service (MXX) have reportedly been dismissed or arrested.
A well-known Uzbek human rights defender, Vasila Inoyatova, has been refused permission to enter Kyrgyzstan.
A well-known independent journalist in Uzbekistan has been summoned by police following his coverage of state compensation to homeowners whose properties were demolished.
Some 100 employees of Uzbekistan's State Customs Committee (UDBK) have been arrested on corruption charges.
Uzbek rights defender Abdurasul Khudoinazarov died on June 26 at age 58, less than one month after being released from prison.
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine appear to be enlisting fighters from the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan. One correspondent from RFE/RL's Uzbek Service contacted separatist recruiters and reports that they appeared eager to take on foreign fighters.
Plumbers in Uzbekistan's eastern city of Qoqon found a gold brick weighing more than 13 kilograms during renovations of the city's sewage system.
Transportation prices in Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent, increased by 20 percent as of June 15.
Bars, restaurants, and cafes in Uzbekistan say they are being forced to pay a $1,000 fee for permission to show matches of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which begins in Brazil on June 12.
The government of Uzbekistan has begun to switch all official correspondence to a domestic electronic-mail system called umail.uz.
The French Institute in Uzbekistan will cease its operations as of June 30.
Security at local schools and kindergartens in Uzbekistan has been beefed up following the disappearance of several children in the country's southwestern Bukhara Province.
Inmates in Uzbekistan’s largest penitentiaries have reportedly been deprived of family visits and parcels.
A NATO bureau on ties and cooperation with Central Asian countries has officially opened in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent.
Russian police in Moscow Oblast have charged 57 people with hooliganism and drinking alcohol in public after they took part in a violent antimigrant rally fueled by the death of a local man.
Uzbek and Tajik inmates in a penal colony in Russia's Siberian city of Omsk say they rioted on May 13, demanding investigations into the death of a jailed migrant worker from Tajikistan.
More than 500 Muslims in the Czech capital, Prague, held Friday Prayers near the Czech Interior Ministry to protest last week's police raid at the premises of the Islamic Foundation in Prague.
Construction of a new amphitheater in the ancient Silk Route city of Samarkand near the famous Registan complex of buildings has damaged two of the madrassahs.
A suspected natural-gas explosion has killed one woman and injured three men in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent.
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