TASHKENT (Reuters) - Uzbekistan on Monday pushed back against Russian criticism of its plans to enforce the use of the Uzbek language in the civil service, in a rare rebuke of Moscow by Tashkent amid ...

Soon after the Uzbek Ministry of Justice proposed legal change that will fine government officials for failing to use the Uzbek language in written business, Russian media picked up the story and ...

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoev has issued a decree to hasten the full transition of the Uzbek language from the Cyrillic to Latin alphabet. The decree issued on October 21 outlines language ...

A recent incident at a school in Uzbekistan between a teacher and a sixth-grader who asked her why she didn't speak Russian in a Russian class has led to heated statements between Russian and Uzbek ...

Uzbekistan has admonished a spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry who last week complained that a draft bill envisioning fines for civil servants failing to produce official documentation ...

With a large chunk of the population in the southern Kyrgyzstan city of Osh being represented by the ethnic Uzbek community, disseminating at least some advertising material in Uzbek ahead of this ...