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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

Within the framework of comprehensive events held by the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Indonesia, Polyglot Indonesia training club in Jakarta organized Uzbek language courses and acquainted with culture of ...

In a recent article on the renaming of towns in Tajikistan, Catherine Putz makes the argument that such an act is a waste of time. While it is true that Tajikistan and other Central Asian countries ...

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 ...