A recent incident at a school in Uzbekistan between a teacher and a sixth-grader who asked her why she didn't speak Russian in a Russian class has led to heated statements between Russian and Uzbek ...

Uzbekistan plans to fully transition the Uzbek language from the Cyrillic script to a Latin-based alphabet by January 1, 2023. The Justice Ministry said in a statement on February 11 that the ...

February 9 marks the 580th anniversary of the birth of Alisher Navoiy, a 15th-century poet, linguist and thinker who has come to play a central role in the nation-building process of Uzbekistan. The ...

Although Turkey was the first country to acknowledge Uzbekistan’s independence on December 16, 1991, the two countries have been through hot and cold periods since. Relations reached their lowest ...

Apart from 29 million Uzbeks living in Uzbekistan, there are almost 3 million ethnic Uzbeks in neighboring Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, and another 2 to 4 million ethnic ...