Uzbekistan will never be part of entities resembling the former Soviet Union,” Karimov said in a speech to parliament in January 2015. Karimov notably said in that same address that he would never ...

October 18, 2004: Interfax reports Uzbekistan "urges" Russian investors to take part in privatizing key enterprises, offers stakes in the Syrdarya thermal-power plant (48 percent), the ...

Uzbekistan, like Ukraine, was once part of the Soviet Union. Moscow has also been luring foreign fighters to fight in its war in Ukraine, with citizens of Kazakhstan, also a former Soviet republic ...

Uzbekistan-Russia relations ... The stories of three men jailed this year in Uzbekistan for taking part in Russia’s war in Ukraine together tell a tale of desperation and exploitation.

One thing that could rupture Russia’s friendship with China - The Central Asian region’s strategic location between Russia and China has long made it a ‘grand chessboard’ for great power politics ...

Russian, of course, was the state language of the Soviet Union. But after Uzbekistan gained independence in 1991, Karimov deemphasized the instruction of Russian in schools -- largely out of a desire ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to meet at a summit in Uzbekistan next week as part of the Chinese ruler’s first overseas visit since the pandemic.

Russia and Uzbekistan on Monday praised “fruitful” interparliamentary contacts, ... leading Russia’s delegation that is taking part in the 150th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ...

SAMARKAND /Uzbekistan/, April 23. /TASS/. Uzbekistan has always been and will be Russia's closest partner and reliable ally, Uzbek Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov said on Wednesday at a meeting ...

Uzbekistan's state prosecutors warned citizens against joining foreign armies after Russia offered fast-track citizenship to those who sign up and Ukraine said it had captured Uzbeks fighting ...

Russia said on Monday that it was closely monitoring the situation in Uzbekistan's Karakalpakstan province after deadly unrest broke out, and that issues there should be solved through "legal ...