Recently, on 22 February, president of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov participated in informal summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States that was held in Moscow. As UzA Uzbekistan National Information Agency informs:
The main issue on the summit agenda was implementation of the Concept of development of the CIS adopted at the October 2007 summit […]

It seems that Islam Karimov, current president of Uzbekistan, who has been leading the country for almost twenty years, is again reshuffling high ranking officials in the country. Recently, one of the key figures of Uzbek politics Anvar Nabiev, a Deputy Prosecutor General, was taken into custody for some unknown reasons. Today, there are […]

Not surprisingly, Anvar Nabiev, a Deputy Prosecutor General, has been recently arrested by the law enforcement bodies of Uzbekistan. Shuffling high ranking officials has already become a usual procedure for Uzbekistan, as president Islam Karimov very often changes people in key position in both in central and local governments.
Anvar Nabiev is a well known […]

We had already written about Alisher Usmanov, Uzbek-born businessmen, ferrous metal and mining tycoon, Russia’s 18th richest man. Being one of the leaders of Gazprom, which has very shady reputation in business world, having a capital of $ 5.5 billion and having a 6 years prison term behind, Usmanov is one of the leading […]

Recently, to a great surprise of all, especially the Uzbek government, the world third biggest retailer and major retailer in UK Tesco had put a pioneering ban on cotton produced in Uzbekistan. The motives that lead a retailer to such a decision was the use of organized and forced child labor in producing […]

These are the topics that are covered in the latest International Crisis Group report on Uzbekistan Political Murder in Central Asia: No Time to End Uzbekistan’s Isolation. The ICG report as usually deeply elaborates on the existing problems of Uzbekistan giving in-depth analyzes on each topic. Not surprisingly, the murder of a young prominent […]

Re-elected Uzbek President Islam Karimov met with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin this week and discussed economic and political cooperation between the two countries. But it remains unclear whether the issues of migration and ultra-nationalism has also been put on the table. Because it should have been raised.
Recently Kyrgyz embassy in Moscow filed an […]