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Several Uzbek universities have asked students to sign contracts affirming they will not celebrate Valentine's Day on February 14.
Uzbek President Islam Karimov has postponed a widely criticized official visit to the Czech Republic next week.
A prominent Uzbek photographer and her son have apparently been detained by Tashkent police.
An elderly Uzbek activist known for his open criticism of President Islam Karimov has been released after serving 8 1/2 years in prison.
Hasan Choriev, the father of a prominent Uzbek opposition activist, has been released from prison.
Gasoline prices in Uzbekistan have abruptly increased by up to 20 percent overnight.
An Uzbek dissident who had been living in a Geneva mansion owned by Gulnara Karimova says he has been evicted.
A group of Uzbek dissidents in Switzerland has occupied the house of Gulnara Karimova to highlight the vast amount of money the daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov spent on it.
The newspaper is owned by a close associate of presidential daughter Gulnara Karimova.
A former associate of the Uzbek president's eldest daughter, Gulnara Karimova, has reportedly denied her claims that he was tortured while in custody.
The Uzbek president's daughter Gulnara Karimova has again used Twitter to launch a personal attack against her younger sister, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva.
Swedish-Finnish telecom operator TeliaSonera has dismissed its chief financial officer and three other senior executives amid an ongoing investigation into the transactions and agreements made over the past years by the company and partners in Eurasia.
The Twitter account of Uzbek presidential daughter Gulnara Karimova has been disabled, stoking more speculation about the glamorous "Googoosha" and her seeming fall from grace.
In Uzbekistan, Gulnara Karimova says a close associate, Rustam Madumarov, has been arrested.
Five television channels of Uzbekistan's Nongovernmental Television Network (NTT) have ceased broadcasting, bringing the total number of darkened Uzbek television channels to nine.
Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, says her Terra Group media holding company is being investigated for bribe-taking.
The daughter of the Uzbek president, Gulnara Karimova, has accused the chief of the country's National Security Service of blocking her path to the presidency.
Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of authoritarian Uzbek President Islam Karimov, has accused the chief of the National Security Service of aspirations to lead the country.
A UN review of measures adopted by Uzbekistan to prevent and punish acts of torture was interrupted by an angry outburst, with the head of the Uzbek delegation yelling and banging his fists on the table.
It is the 10th death to have occurred at mandatory cotton-picking sites in Uzbekistan in the last several weeks from a variety of causes, including suicide, electrocution, and a previous fatal stabbing.
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