Author: Malika Ismoilova

Lamine Yamal opened the scoring with a stunning long-range effort in Seville, but the Catalans were made to work hard before sealing a ninth consecutive league victory — and a disputed VAR call added to the drama.

The Argentine goalkeeper collided with an Everton defender and was taken to hospital; Pedro Neto scored twice as Chelsea claimed a 2-0 away victory.

Uzbekistan’s construction minister says a new system bringing certified private maintenance firms into schools and kindergartens will launch next year, starting with a nationwide technical audit of every building.

The Asian Development Bank’s outstanding loans to Karakalpakstan exceed $760 million — a fifth of its entire Uzbekistan portfolio — financing water treatment plants, road reconstruction and a 200-megawatt wind farm in one of Central Asia’s most climate-stressed regions.

Uzbekneftegaz’s petroleum depot network has posted a net profit of 25.2 billion soums in the first nine months of the year, reversing a 108.3 billion soum loss in the same period last year — the first time the depots have been in the black.

Amendments to Uzbekistan’s Tax Code that took effect on 1 January 2018 set fines for unauthorised land use at four times the land tax for companies and three times for individuals, while leaving corporate officials simultaneously exposed to separate personal penalties.

The Asian Development Bank will lend Uzbekistan $200 million to reconstruct 60 substations, cut transmission losses and unlock grid capacity for at least 3.3 GW of renewable energy, under a loan signed in Bangkok on 15 October.

Batyr Rakhimov, long-serving president of the Pakhtakor football club, was unanimously elected chairman of the Uzbekistan Tennis Federation on 17 February 2025 at an extraordinary conference held at the National Olympic Committee, succeeding Alisher Mirsоatov, who moved to lead the Winter Sports Association.

Senate Speaker Tanzila Norboyeva told a plenary session on 23 April 2021 that more than 301 billion soum was stolen from over 2,500 state institutions in 2020, as corruption cases among officials rose to 1,723 and irrigation fraud surged nearly tenfold.

Batyr Rakhimov, founder of Kapitalbank and former long-serving president of Pakhтakor football club, was elected chairman of the Uzbekistan Tennis Federation on 17 February 2025 at an extraordinary conference overseen by the Ministry of Sport and the National Olympic Committee.

Senate Chairwoman Tanzila Norboyeva told a plenary session that hokims are wrongly seeking council approval for money already spent, and demanded councils authorise budgets in advance — just as parliament does at the national level.

A new module on Uzbekistan’s openbudget.uz portal, launched 1 January 2026, lets citizens log in and trace how revenue from their personal income, land and property taxes was allocated across nearly 70 spending lines in 2025.