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.
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.
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.
The State Assets Management Agency has confirmed the cancellation of oil-field licenses held by Sanoat Energetika Guruhi and the termination of the $100 million Fergana Oil Refinery sale, as the company’s financial collapse leaves nearly 39,000 workers owed $131 million in wages.
Uzbekistan has quietly built one of Central Asia’s largest rosters of naturalized Russian athletes, spanning rowing, tennis, figure skating, swimming and fencing. The strategy delivers medals but raises hard questions about what it costs domestic talent and the sports budgets meant to develop it.
The Competition Committee reviewed 878 draft regulatory acts submitted through the government’s unified legislative portal in 2025 and found that 425 — nearly half — contained provisions contradicting competition law. The rate was highest for Presidential-level acts, where 147 of 239 drafts, or 61.5%, were flagged.
An expanded presidential meeting on October 27 set a GDP target of $135 billion and ordered a new budget monitoring system for 22 ministries and local administrations, as the economy grew 7.6% in the first nine months of the year — well ahead of forecast.
