Tajik laws protecting informants extended to those reporting extremist activity

Uzbek justice minister meets with leaders of opposition Erk Party

Uzbekistan plans to attract $90bn of investment over next three years

Tajik government arrests dozens for links to Muslim Brotherhood

Foreign visitors to Uzbekistan increased by 26% in 2019

Number of highly-paid workers in Uzbekistan doubles in a year

Kazakh air crash commission announces working hypothesis

New trial in Gulnara Karimova case gets underway in Tashkent

Tajik migrant workers’ transfers from Russia in 2019 exceed state budget

Uzbekistan provides investors with guarantees against nationalisation

Liberal Democratic Party set to be largest party in Uzbek parliamentary elections

Korean company to found Uzbekistan’s first cryptocurrency exchange

Omurbek Babanov steps down as leader of Respublika Party

Tokayev signals decriminalisation of defamation and liberalisation of public assembly laws

Japan to provide $3.5bn for industrial and agricultural development in Uzbekistan

The Economist names Uzbekistan country of the year

Uzbek payments system Humo’s terminals now accept Visa cards

Tajik authorities grant amnesty to opposition journalist Dodojon Atovulloev

Rights advocates publish report on situation of LGBT and HIV-positive people in Turkmenistan

Uzbek Information Agency tasked with decriminalising defamation and insult