The Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov spoke to the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio over the telephone today.

The Embassy of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to Uzbekistan observes ‘Martyrs’ Day 'and ' International Mother Language Day’ in a befitting manner today (21 February 2025) by organizing various programmes and events.

The Customs Committee will launch an online service for filling out passenger customs declarations when importing mobile phones to Uzbekistan, the spokesman to the Committee, Khusan Tangriev said.

Minister of Transport, Ilhom Mahkamov held talks with the CEO of Wizz Air, József Váradi and the Hungarian Ambassador, József Rózsa Thursday.

Uzbekistan has introduced administrative liability for parents for sending their children to illegal religious schools. According to the newly adopted amendments to the Guarantees of Children's Rights Law, parents are entitled to raise their children in accordance with their religious and moral beliefs.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev today had a telephone conversation with the Russian president Vladimir Putin, the presidential press service said.

Today, the President of Uzbekistan and the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a meeting dedicated to the country's defense capability. In the meeting were present the members of the Security Council, heads of military departments, commanders of military districts, as well as representatives of provincial authorities via video conference call.

The Senate passed the bill banning the privatization of parks, alleys, squares and green areas in Uzbekistan at a meeting on Thursday, and introducing the concept of permitted use of a land plot.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a law introducing a system of penalty points for traffic violations Thursday, the Ministry of Justice said.

The Senate passed the Ensuring freedom of conscience of individuals in the Republic of Uzbekistan and approving the concept of national policies in the religious sphere Bill. The Bill has now been sent to the president to be signed into law and to take effect.

Website of Kun.uz news publication was inaccessible for over a day starting from late on February 18. The website resumed on Wednesday evening. Yesterday, the editorial staff said that this was due to technical problems with the server which hosts the website.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan has put the religious blogger Alisher Tursunov (aka Mubashir Akhmad) on the Wanted list on Wednesday.

Security measures were tightened at Tashkent’s school #71 in response to a perceived terrorist threat. The school received bomb threat was an anonymous person who promised to stage a "bloody massacre." In connection with this, all students were checked with metal detectors in the morning.

MPs of the Legislative Chamber reviewed the bill, which is aimed at improving the social services system. In recent years, Uzbekistan has been reforming the process of assigning pensions. The practice of issuing pensions based on one ID document has already been adopted, thanks to integration with governmental service centers and the Unified Portal of Interactive Governmental Services.

The Anti-trust Committee found a collusion to keep prices high between 47 gas filling stations in Bukhara province. Monitoring conducted by the Bukhara province branch of the committee showed that the retail price of 1 cubic meter of compressed gas at filling stations until December 6, 2024 was from 3,850 to 3,950 soums, and in the period from December 7 to 9, it rose to 4,150 soums, or by 8%.

Hundreds of greenhouses, factories and social facilities were found to be violating emission standards in the capital and Tashkent province, the press service of the Ministry of Environmental said.

As part of the activities of the Youth Affairs Agency, a national target fund will be set within the Fund for Support of Young Entrepreneurs aimed at the development of youth entrepreneurship.

Uzbekistan’s defense industry companies showcased three of its military equipment at the IDEX-2025 international Defense Industry Exhibition in the UAE.

0.56-ha land plot in Uchtepa district of Tashkent city was sold for 55.13 billion soum, $4.2 million USD in an auction on February 14. The plot is located in the Khamdoost mahalla, at the intersection of Lutfi and Katta Khirmontepa streets. The buyer, Al-Baraka Qop Biznes unveiled the plan to build an apartment building on the land.

21-year-old convict of the #14 penal colony, in Almalyk, Tashkent province, Muhammadkodir Pulatov, died On February 15, the director of the Ezgulik human rights society "" Abdurakhmon Tashanov said on his Facebook page.