Last year was a big one for Gulnara Karimova and Twitter. And if the first three days of January are any indication, 2013 will be an active one as well.
Swedish telecommunications giant TeliaSonera just can’t get enough of Kazakhstan’s mobile market.
Uzbekistan has banned the road transportation of liquefied natural gas through its territory, a decision the government says is intended to protect public safety and the environment.
Officials in Central Asia insist they will continue the practice of ushering in a Western-style New Year's with parties, decorated trees, and Father Frost despite scattered calls to discard those Soviet-era traditions.
Eleven people described as illegal immigrants were reportedly shot dead in Pakistan's Pothar area, near the Iranian border.
Gulnara Karimova can tweet, sing, stretch, style, and oversee her family's massive fortune. But can she rule Uzbekistan? At a press conference on December 20, the 40-year-old Karimova suggested she was contemplating a bid for the presidency if her father, Islam Karimov, steps down in 2015. RFE/RL explores the political prospects of Tashkent's first daughter.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is starting an official two-day visit to Uzbekistan to discuss security and trade.
Impenetrable Uzbekistan has suddenly found itself with a surprisingly vocal spokeswoman -- presidential daughter Gulnara Karimova. Karimova has become a combative presence on Twitter, even agreeing to debate critics like Andrew Stroehlein of the International Crisis Group about her country's dismal record on human rights. Stroehlein seized the opportunity, sending Karimova an open e-mail detailing some of Uzbekistan's most notorious transgressions. But will she respond?
An investigative program airing in Sweden offers evidence of how executives in Uzbekistan negotiated millions of dollars in suspected bribes on behalf of the presidential daughter, Gulnara Karimova.
A group of international rights groups have urged Uzbekistan to mark the 20th anniversary of the country's constitution with the unconditional release of political prisoners.
The Uzbek Senate has adopted a resolution on amnesty that is expected to go into effect on December 6.
According to the anticorruption group Transparency International (TI), high levels of bribery, abuse of power, and secret dealings continue to “ravage” societies around the world, despite a growing public outcry over corrupt governments.
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