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Sydney Millar on the recent exodus of Russian men to the Central Asian states as Vladimir Putin has announced partial mobilization for the war in Ukraine.

Did the Uzbek government just strip the autonomous region of Karakalpakstan of its constitutional right to independence?

In April the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed that it had fired ten rockets at a military base near the Afghan-Uzbek border. With violence ramping up, keeping tabs on the ISKP is [...]

Elodie Phillips' interview Suna Julia Parks about growing up in Central Asia, about moving back to the city where she was born as an adult and, her projects current work with "hashar" and [...]

Tereza Dvorakova on the current state of religious acceptance in Uzbekistan.

Katherine Leung interview Tashkent painter Marie Korovina about her art and philosophy. For Lossi 36's new exhibition: Fables, Fairytales and Feminism - contemporary women artists making magic in [...]

Mamut Churlu is part of the mass return of Tatar repatriates to the Crimean Peninsula at the fall of the Soviet Union. Churlu worked for years in Uzbekistan and Russia on researching folk art [...]

One of my favourite things about the upcoming holidays is the amount of time I can spend on reading. Every year, I find at least one book under the Christmas tree and usually, I finish it before [...]

An Ode to Osh? Ryan Schweitzer describes the cultural importance of Uzbekistan's most famous rice dish.

As a so-called terrorist and enemy of the people according to the former Uzbek regime, long-time human rights defender Elena Urlaeva has also been called the bravest person in her native [...]