The country's decision to block the Uzbek-language wiki may be more about showmanship and nationalism than controlling information. I have a suspicion that what prompted the Wikipedia ban at the end ...

Written in three alphabets and spoken across Central Asia by 35 million people, Uzbek is the second most widely used Turkic language after Turkish. It is also the sole official language of Uzbekistan, ...

In June 2010, southern Kyrgyzstan erupted in violence between the Uzbek minority and Kyrgyz majority. Almost 500 people were killed, hundreds injured, and many thousands left homeless in the Osh and ...

TASHKENT (Reuters) - Uzbekistan on Monday pushed back against Russian criticism of its plans to enforce the use of the Uzbek language in the civil service, in a rare rebuke of Moscow by Tashkent amid ...

Soon after the Uzbek Ministry of Justice proposed legal change that will fine government officials for failing to use the Uzbek language in written business, Russian media picked up the story and ...

With a large chunk of the population in the southern Kyrgyzstan city of Osh being represented by the ethnic Uzbek community, disseminating at least some advertising material in Uzbek ahead of this ...

With Russia's doors increasingly closed due to nationalist tensions, nurses, labourers and bricklayers are now looking to ...

Among the numerous recent hardships endured by Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan, the closure of Uzbek-language schools ranks among the most discouraging. Uzbek schools were already starved of funding ...