Large-scale activities are carried out on perpetuating the memory of Islam Karimov at the initiative of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. In accordance with resolutions of the Head of the state “On ...

In an unprecedented move in January 2018, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev removed the long-serving, and powerful head of the National Security Service (SNB), Rustam Inoyatov. Given the SNB’s ...

When Shavkat Mirziyoyev replaced longtime strongman Islam Karimov as Uzbekistan’s president in 2016, he promised democratic reforms, openness and accountability. But a key element of those ...

Uzbekistan's first and only president was confirmed dead last week.

The central election commission said that Uzbekistan, the biggest country in Central Asia in term of population, has its interim leader, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has won a crushing 88.61% presidential ...

Credit: Flickr / amanderson Subscribe for ads-free reading In 2016, Uzbekistan’s longtime leader, President Islam Karimov, died and his former prime minister, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, soon ascended ...

Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has announced snap elections less than a week after securing ... "iron-fisted" Islam Karimov, the last few years under Mirziyoyev have witnessed a tightening ...

Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev applauds during a signing ceremony on the sidelines of the China-Central Asia Summit in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, May 18, 2023.

Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is credited with leading Central Asia's most populous country out of isolation, but his appetite for change may be waning now that he has consolidated power.

Uzbekistan's incumbent president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has overwhelmingly won a new seven-year term in a snap election in which he faced three weak opponents, preliminary results showed Monday.

On December 14, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev laid flowers at the monument to the First President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov in the city of Karshi and paid tribute to his memory. This ...