Author: Dilshod Ergashev

Nearly half of all ecology complaints concern rubbish collection, and one in five involves fees for services never rendered — problems that persisted even after a January 2026 rule meant to stop them.

Batyr Rakhimov, a businessman and former president of football club Pakhtakor, was unanimously elected chairman of the Uzbekistan Tennis Federation on 17 February 2025 at an extraordinary conference held at the National Olympic Committee, replacing Alisher Mirsоatov, who departed to lead the Association of Winter Sports.

Cabinet Resolution No. 585, signed on 21 October 2026, sets out a graduated financial penalty system for firms that over-abstract water or operate without contracts and permits, effective from 2027.

Amendments to 33 departmental instruments, registered by the Ministry of Justice on 20 October 2026, require banks, notaries, domestic airports and other bodies to accept digital versions of passports, ID cards, birth certificates and other key documents.

The CCA, housed in the city’s first diesel power station, will become Uzbekistan’s first permanent contemporary art centre, with a debut exhibition curated by Dr Sara Raza and a Venice Biennale presence planned for later in the year.

The film about the 14th-century Central Asian ruler premiered on 2 April, shot entirely on location across Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan with a crew of up to 800 people and tens of tonnes of water per day.

A draft regulation published for public comment sets out the rules, principles and timelines for state accreditation of Uzbekistan’s educational institutions, with five-year cycles and the State Inspectorate for Education Quality Control as the governing authority.

Built in partnership with BI Group, the five-storey campuses are designed to add 18,000 school places by the next academic year, with 16 modern kindergartens also planned.

Uzbekistan’s Sanitary and Epidemiological Committee says border controls and laboratory networks are in place as the WHO monitors an unconfirmed suspected plague death at a Russian research institute.

Chilean-Canadian professor Waldo Arriagada has taught in the Bahamas, Abu Dhabi and China. Now at New Uzbekistan University, he reflects on Tashkent’s contrasts, the philosophy of pure mathematics, and an obsession with time that spawned a

The city hokimiyat has signed off on dedicated central bus lanes for four additional corridors, with design costs estimated at 6.5 billion soums and funding earmarked from the Tashkent City Development Fund.

President Mirziyoyev returned a payment-sector reform law to parliament, and deputies voted to drop it entirely — without debate or disclosure of which provisions he opposed.