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 ...

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, ...

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoev has issued a decree to hasten the full transition of the Uzbek language from the Cyrillic to Latin alphabet. The decree issued on October 21 outlines language ...

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 ...

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 ...

Uzbekistan has admonished a spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry who last week complained that a draft bill envisioning fines for civil servants failing to produce official documentation ...

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 ...

Over the past year, Azerbaijan has also strengthened its engagement in Central Asia. Economic ties with Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have expanded rapidly, with bilateral trade between Azerbaijan and ...