A new $1.3 billion development in Uzbekistan’s capital is meant to rebrand this Central Asian state as open for business. But the costs of this project are turning out to be all too human. RU
Sandwiched between three Central Asian states, people living on all sides of the Ferghana Valley are overcoming securitisation – through everyday cooperation.
Uzbekistan’s transition to a market economy will require further worker suppression. But signs of worker mobilisation in the Karimov era can give us hope. RU
The saga of Gulnara Karimova’s ill-gotten and ill-fated assets – frozen in a number of mostly European jurisdictions – may soon come to an end.
Much has been made of the new Uzbek leader's openness, but Shavkat Mirziyoyev's rule is rooted in the path set by his predecessor.
Uzbekistan’s so-called “spring” is more about upgrading this Central Asian state than providing political freedoms.
My country is at a crossroads. If it does not reform its governance system to better protect against corruption, it will become mired in crony capitalism.
People leave Uzbekistan seeking safety and work in Russia. But what they find is prosecution and abduction.
Open letter from Uzbek human rights activists to British sculptor Paul Day, commissioned to commemorate former President. The sculpture is to go outside the Uzbek embassy in Moscow.
Erkin Musaev spent 11 years in prison on fabricated charges. As signs of cautious reform emerge in Uzbekistan, this former political prisoner is keen to see real change happen.
One year after the death of Islam Karimov, the continued use of forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields shows how slow the pace of change really is.
Uzbekistan has often used forced labour to bring in the cotton harvest. A new report shows that the World Bank’s continuing investment may only prolong the practice.
