A Paris court has jailed nine people for links to an Uzbek militant group with ties to Al-Qaeda.
With its dismal human rights record, it's not often that Uzbekistan is rewarded for its fair play.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's premier foreign-policy initiative, the Eurasian Customs Union, is showing unprecedented vitality. But the European Union says membership in the ECU is incompatible with closer economic ties with the EU. This confronts many former Soviet states -- especially Ukraine and Moldova -- with a stark choice.
Kyrgyz and Uzbek authorities have agreed to conduct a joint investigation into this week's hostage-taking incident in Uzbekistan's Sokh district, when clashes broke out as power lines were being installed to a Kyrgyz border post.
Sokh district, a small pocket of Uzbek territory within Kyrgyzstan, has been the scene of low-level violence and bilateral tension since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Following an outbreak of violence on January 5-6, RFE/RL takes a brief look at the history of this territory and some of the contentious issues it presents for Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Uzbek and Kyrgyz officials are issuing mutual accusations over an outbreak of violence in the Uzbek exclave of Sokh, located inside Kyrgyzstan's southern region of Batken. Clashes erupted on January 5 and 6 between Kyrgyz border guards and Sokh residents, who took dozens of Kyrgyz citizens hostage. All were released by January 7. In this video, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service asked Kyrgyz residents living near the Sokh border to describe what happened as the crisis started.
All of the Kyrgyz citizens being held hostage in Uzbekistan's Sokh exclave have been released.
Tensions between the main ethnic groups of the Ferghana Valley flared again over the weekend, bringing up memories of ethnic clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan between Uzbeks and Kyrgyz in June 2010 that left hundreds dead, thousands wounded, and caused widespread property damage.
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.
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