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 ...

Uzbekistan Airports and its member companies held a spiritual-enlightenment event devoted to the 36th anniversary of the adoption of the Law “On the State Language” and October 21 – Uzbek Language Day ...

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 ...

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 ...

Uzbekistan has for the first time in its history opened a college devoted exclusively to the study of Uzbek language and literature. The Alisher Navoi University, which was created at the behest of ...

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, ...

Close cooperation is established between the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and the higher education institutions of Uzbekistan. Close cooperation is established between the Moscow ...

The personal story of the Korean Cultural Centres Association in Uzbekistan chairman, Viktor Pak, who was raised by an Uzbek ...

Uzbekistan Airports JSC hosted a conference on “Uzbek language is our pride”. The event was attended by the employees of the Department for Development of the State Language of the Cabinet of ...

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 ...