Uzbekistan

Amid the crackdown on protests last summer in Nukus, 21 people were killed -- most of them civilians.

Uzbek President Mirziyoyev recently dismissed Jahongir Artikhodjaev, the controversial mayor of Tashkent. 

Visit Uzbekistan and you’ll see a variety of alphabets used, a product of the country’s many changes and the long march toward fully using a Latin script. 

All three countries have suffered from energy shortages this winter, underscoring the need for new sources across the region.

People living in the settlements adjacent to landfills slated for expansion under an EBRD project were not adequately consulted.

Central Asia might actually be interested in Russian gas, but please don’t call it a “union.”

Uzbekistan has both financial and political reasons to pump the brakes, even if Tashkent has no intention of scrapping the project.

They did so separately, however, given how contentious the agreement on the Kempir-Abad reservoir is in Kyrgyzstan.

Abortion in Uzbekistan has never been politicized as it has been in the West, but terminating a pregnancy is still becoming less common.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu's trip to Central Asia seeks to “reinforce the United States’ commitment to each country’s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity."

Human Rights Watch says Uzbek security forces “unjustifiably” used lethal force to disperse generally peaceful demonstrators this summer.