Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has arrived in Tashkent for a two-day visit aimed at improving cooled relations between Moscow and Tashkent, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
Russia is marking the 130th anniversary of the birth of Soviet leader Josef Stalin with medals and marches in his honor, as well as an exhibition that shows his crude and vindictive side. But even as many Russians continue to revere Stalin as a strong leader, others remember his cruel legacy as the man responsible for millions of deaths during his nearly 30-year rule.
An Uzbek woman who was reportedly gang-raped along with her two sisters in a Tashkent jail has given birth, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
Call her the Oprah Winfrey of Uzbekistan. (If Oprah Winfrey recorded banal Euro pop and her father was the brutal dictator of a repressive Central Asian nation, that is.) Gulnara Karimova, the eldest daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, has been included, for the first time, on a list of the top 10 richest women in Switzerland.
The banned Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan's (IMU) official "Shahid" (martyr) list does not include IMU leader Tohir Yuldash, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
Dozens of Uzbek refugees held a protest in Stockholm to support jailed Muslim women in Uzbekistan, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
A prominent Uzbek photographer/videographer has been charged with defamation and damaging the country's image because of the content of her photos and videos, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
A U.S. Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee held a special hearing on Central Asia on December 15 to discuss the Obama administration's policy toward a region that has grown in importance recently for many countries.
Switzerland will accept a detainee from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba after the United States asked the Alpine country and other states to house released prisoners.
An Uzbek human rights organization is calling for justice after reports of two sisters being gang-raped in jail in Tashkent, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
The head of Tajikistan's TajikTransGaz says gas negotiations with Uzbekistan are progressing but that there is still no agreement on a gas price for 2010, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.
Uzbek border guards have shot and wounded two Tajik citizens along Tajikistan's border in the northern Panjakent district, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.
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