Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana arrived in Uzbekistan on Friday as part of a historic official visit to two Muslim-majority countries, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. This marked the first time a sitting ...

Oksana Chusovitina was born on June 19, 1975, in Bukhara, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union. She has an older brother and two sisters and among them, she is the youngest.

No less significant is the desire to reclaim control over their modern history. October 27 marked the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic as part of the USSR.

Deportation and adaptation In 1937, around 172,000 Koreans were deported from the Russian Far East to Central Asia due to political distrust and suspicions of espionage during tensions with Japan.

In June 2023, Uzbek president Shavkat Mirziyoyev met Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, and Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. The countries plan to increase annual trade to $3 billion USD.

Even as frontiers were chopped and changed, the question of which republic owned what land were for all practical purposes deemed a formality since the Kyrgyz SSR and the Uzbek SSR were both part of ...

The Site and External Events Design Review Service (SEED) mission, which took place from 16 to 20 January, was carried out at the request of the Government of Uzbekistan and hosted by the state agency ...

Iya Rudzitskaya, a 92-year-old Ukrainian Jew, has fled Kyiv twice. First, in 1941, when she was just 10 years old and German bombs started falling on the then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ...

It eventually became an autonomous republic within the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in 1936. Thus, when it comes to historic lands for Karakalpakstan, it gets very complicated, very fast.

Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic > Joined the U.S.S.R.: 1924 > Declared independence: Aug. 31, 1991 > Name today: Uzbekistan > Population (2022): 34,382,084 ...