The pro-Kremlin Nashi youth movement is demanding that the Uzbek ambassador to Russia keep a pledge and reinstall a Soviet-era war monument that was removed from downtown Tashkent last year, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
Authorities in the Uzbek capital have begun renaming some 150 streets and residential areas to deemphasize the city's Soviet heritage, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
The media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it is concerned about the arrest of prominent Uzbek journalist Khayrulla Khamidov, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
An Uzbek detainee held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has been sent to Switzerland, the U.S. Justice Department has said.
The Spanish Foreign Ministry says Gulnara Karimova, the eldest daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, has been named Uzbek ambassador to Spain, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
Authorities' electronic experiment with other people's cash has some Uzbeks seeing red.
Prominent Uzbek sports journalist Khairulla Khamidov has been arrested, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
Former Uzbek Ambassador to the United States Abdulaziz Komilov has been appointed first deputy foreign minister, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
A trial has started for some 70 people suspected of involvement in an assassination attempt against an Uzbek imam and the killing of an Interior Ministry official, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
A Kyrgyz border guard shot by Uzbek border guards on January 17 is still being kept in Uzbekistan, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
The International Association of Art Critics (AICA) has launched a campaign in support of Uzbek photographer Umida Ahmedova, who has been charged by the government with defamation, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.
Governments responsible for serious human rights violations have intensified attacks against rights defenders and organizations that document abuse over the past year. That's according to Human Rights Watch's 20th annual review of human rights practices around the globe. The group also urges governments that support human rights to make rights a central part of their bilateral relations.
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