In May 2025, in the small village of Zarbdor in Uzbekistan’s Jizzakh region, a woman made a decision that would set off a cascade of personal and institutional consequences. Shoira*, a 40-year-old ...

Master embroiderer Madina Kasimbaeva is breathing new life into Uzbekistan’s Tashkent school of suzani. Her handmade textiles empower women and have earned worldwide recognition, from Qatar to the ...

Nargiza Unal met her husband, Adnan, 13 years ago when she was working in Turkey on a temporary visa with the hope of making money and returning to her home country, Uzbekistan. Nargiza's plans ...

MINSK, 5 November (BelTA) – A memorandum of cooperation between the Bolshoi Theatre of Belarus and the Alisher Navoi Theatre of Uzbekistan was signed during a working meeting between Belarusian ...

A World Bank study on the impact of readily available childcare on female employment in Uzbekistan produced some surprising results. An Uzbek government program to expand pre-school access for young ...

While the phrase “explore and discover” is used liberally across the art world, the unveiling of a slew of new art venues and events in Uzbekistan might be the closest the words come to not being ...

MINSK, 3 September (BelTA) – Chairwoman of the Council of the Republic Natalya Kochanova took stock of the 3rd Belarus-Uzbekistan Women’s Business Forum, BelTA has learned. She emphasized that the ...

Viktor Pak, of Korean descent, doesn't remember his parents well — they passed away when he was just two months old. His family story is rooted in a difficult past. In the 1930s, during Stalin's mass ...