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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 acting president Shavkat Mirziyoyev won a resounding victory in the country’s first presidential election since the death of longtime authoritarian leader Islam Karimov.

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

In this handout photo released by Uzbekistan's Presidential Press Office, Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev casts his ballot at a polling station during a referendum in Tashkent ...

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.

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.

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 ...