From Uzbek disco to Uighur rock: Forgotten sounds of the Silk Road | Music
On an early morning car ride from Tashkent to Samarkand after a performance in 1983, the Uzbek pop singer Nasiba
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Uzbekistan
Did an arrested Uzbek ‘mafia chieftain’ organise killings of dissidents? | Politics News
On his Swedish visa application, Yuri Zhukovsky said he was an administrator of Pakhtakor, ex-Soviet Uzbekistan’s most popular football club,
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Boxing’s IBA out of Olympics, but bouts still on for Paris Games | Olympics News
International Olympic Committee withdraws recognition of International Boxing Association at Olympic events. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has banished the
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IBA slams ‘black sheep’ breakaway body as schism roils boxing | Boxing News
International Boxing Association (IBA) President Umar Kremlev has blasted the national federations who broke away from the body to form
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Uzbeks back President Mirziyoyev’s reforms proposal | Elections News
Election commission says more than 90 percent of voters back President Mirziyoyev’s constitutional amendments. Voters in Uzbekistan have overwhelmingly backed
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Uzbekistan votes on referendum to extend president’s term limits | Politics News
People in Uzbekistan are voting on a constitutional referendum that could allow President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to extend his rule by
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Blinken in Central Asia to boost ties amid Russia-Ukraine war | Russia-Ukraine war News
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Kazakhstan, his first stop on a Central Asia trip to meet
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‘I was naive about Russia’: Central Asians on the Ukraine war | Russia-Ukraine war News
Kyiv, Ukraine – Serik Talipzhanov does not like Russia any more. The 32-year-old bank cashier lives in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s former
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Uzbekistan jails protesters over anti-government unrest | News
Court sentences 22 people to various prison terms over last year’s unrest which left 21 people dead. A court in
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Indonesia court hearing into children killed by toxic cough syrup | Health News
Some 200 children have died of acute kidney injury in Indonesia since last year and dozens of cases linked to
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