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    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Central Asia
      Xi Jinping pushes Central Asian defence co-operation plan

      Chinese president’s offer to help with security comes as Russian influence in the region weakens

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Venice Architecture Biennale 2023
      Uzbek pavilion lures Venice visitors into the labyrinth

      The country’s contribution to the architecture biennale takes the form of an ancient mazelike fort

    • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
      Alisher Usmanov
      Uzbekistan lobbies EU to lift sanctions on Alisher Usmanov

      Tashkent backs Uzbek-Russian oligarch in challenging punitive measures imposed after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

    • Monday, 5 September, 2022
      Xi Jinping
      Xi Jinping set to make first foreign trip since start of Covid pandemic

      Chinese president expected to travel to central Asia and meet Vladimir Putin this month

    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      Travel
      Postcard from Khiva: weaving magic at the Silk Carpet Workshop

      It’s 20 years since the city’s only maker of the traditional item opened — though thousands of years have gone into its craft

    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
      Chess
      Olympiad gold for Uzbekistan — and also for England’s David Howell

      Puzzle: find the move to defeat Caruana

    • Sunday, 3 July, 2022
      Uzbek government backs down after plan for constitution sparks protests

      Move to strip autonomous region of special status dropped but analysts warn unrest could spread

    • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
      Global InsightLaura Pitel
      Kazakhstan unrest shows Erdogan that Putin is still the regional ‘big boss’

      Russian role in recent protest deals blow to Turkish president as he seeks to cultivate pan-Turkic unity

    • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
      FT SeriesPink Snow 2021: winter sports special
      Could Uzbekistan be skiing’s next big thing?

      The opening of a brand new resort is drawing attention to what could be a new frontier for the sport

    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      Special Report
      Modern Uzbekistan

      Economic reforms are starting to take effect, but human rights abuses and social problems are a block to full investor trust

    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      Special ReportModern Uzbekistan
      Uzbekistan pins hopes on renewable energy

      Blackouts have long plagued the central Asian state. A $6.5bn clean energy programme is expected to change that

    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      Special ReportModern Uzbekistan
      Uzbekistan’s grocery sector set for boom time

      Foreign operators including Carrefour are entering one of the country’s most liberal sectors

    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      Special ReportModern Uzbekistan
      Uzbekistan’s deputy PM Jamshid Kuchkarov: ‘The country will never go back to the past’

      Former finance minister says early progress is irreversible, but analysts predict turbulence ahead

    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      Special ReportModern Uzbekistan
      Uzbekistan’s tentative steps towards a digital future

      Technology could hold the key to future prosperity for the landlocked country, and entrepreneurs are hungry for change

    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      Special ReportModern Uzbekistan
      Uzbekistan reform agenda shows signs of slowing

      Early progress towards a more liberal economy has drawn attention to the previously authoritarian state

    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      Special ReportModern Uzbekistan
      Uzbekistan fails to address human rights violations

      Reform efforts have ‘ground to a halt’, say experts

    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      Special ReportModern Uzbekistan
      Uzbekistan’s rapid growth draws international investors

      Booming population fuels ambitions to become Central Asia’s biggest economy

    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      Special ReportModern Uzbekistan
      Uzbekistan hires foreign advisers to push through reform programme

      Wide-ranging and ambitious road map calls for dozens of new projects to spur growth

    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      Special ReportModern Uzbekistan
      Uzbekistan seeks to shed state assets

      Government wants to speed up privatisation, but inefficiency and poor management are in the way

    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      Special ReportModern Uzbekistan
      Taliban takeover turns Uzbekistan into powerbroker

      President Shavkat Mirziyoyev cultivates Central Asia leadership role

    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      Special ReportModern Uzbekistan
      Uzbekistan’s population boom poses problems for state

      A combination of high birth rates and soaring unemployment points to problems ahead

    • Wednesday, 5 August, 2020
      Switzerland
      Swiss examine fresh allegations against prosecutor Lauber

      Complaint alleges ‘unlawful collaboration’ with Bern to boost country’s interests in Uzbekistan

    • Wednesday, 15 July, 2020
      News in-depthCentral Asia
      Central Asian countries fear economic hit as virus cases surge

      Kazakhstan and neighbours reintroduce lockdown after rising infections highlight danger of exiting early

    • Wednesday, 18 March, 2020
      Former Uzbekistan leader’s daughter found guilty of graft

      Gulnara Karimova sentenced to move than 13 years in prison for embezzlement and extortion

    • Friday, 29 November, 2019
      FT SeriesChristmas presents — a Food & Drink special
      The magic of Uzbek winter melons: gifts ‘of rare and strange beauty’

      Why these fruits have bewitched travellers to Central Asia for centuries

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