Uzbekistan held a second round of parliamentary elections in 22 districts where no candidate received the needed amount of votes to win outright in the December 21 first round
Uzbek media reports say a Tashkent police officer who struck and killed two people with a car has been released from prison after serving only six months of his seven-year sentence.
Kyrgyz media reported Uzbekistan has renewed gas supplies to Kyrgyzstan's southern Osh area after more than eight months
Russia's special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, has warned of "Islamists" in Afghanistan concentrating along the Tajik and Turkmen borders.
The deadline for the drawdown of foreign forces from Afghanistan has arrived. Only about one-10th of the once 140,000-strong foreign force will be in Afghanistan in 2015 and that number will gradually decrease in the years to follow.
Uzbekistan's Central Election Commission has announced the date for the country's next presidential election will be March 29
Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged members of a regional security alliance to be prepared to take "preventive measures" against the Islamic State (IS) group in Central Asia.
The vote monitoring arm of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) says Uzbekistan's parliamentary elections lacked real competition.
A Germany-based news website focused on Uzbekistan has closed down, a month after the names of some of its contributors inside the Central Asian country were publicized following the hacking of the chief editor's computer and e-mail account.
Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who achieved a rock-star level of fame during the Soviet era, was hospitalized on December 14 after a fall during a visit to the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
Uzbek migrant laborers returning from Russia to Uzbekistan to pick up their new biometric passports are being invited by Uzbekistan's National Security Service (SNB) to have a "conversation" after they return.
Three Central Asian languages have been included in Google's online translation system.
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