Uzbek Ambassador Nodir Ganiev held talks with the director of the Swedish Aral Sea Society, Bo Liebert. According to Dunyo, during the talks, the parties exchanged views on the current state of affairs and prospects of the 25-year cooperation between Uzbekistan's universities and the Swedish Aral Sea Society.

The public became aware that ex-officials who raped the inmates of an orphanage in Urgench were serving their sentences in a prison colony. The press service of the Tashkent City Courts explained why this decision was made.

Uzbek Ambassador Amirsaid Azamkhozhaev visited the Collegium Humanum University in Warsaw and held a meeting with the rector of the higher education institution, Pavel Charnetskш, Honorary Consul of Uzbekistan in Poland.

Parliamentary delegation led by the Speaker of the Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan Nuriddin Ismailov will visit the Russian Federation on February 19-20.

LOT Polish Airlines will launch Warsaw to Tashkent regular flight from March 13, 2024. According to Dunyo, the number of Polish tourists who visited Uzbekistan in 2023 was фе 8 thousand. At the promotional event dedicated to the launch of the flight, it is planned to bring this figure to 25 thousand in 2024.

UK medical institutions will hire Uzbek nurses, the Foreign Labor Migration Agency said. Reportedly, the agency reached an agreement with the UK employers' union on this matter.

The memory of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died last Friday in the Polar Wolf colony, was honored on Saturday at the Shahidlar Khotirasi (Memory of the Victims of Repression) alley in Tashkent.

World Bank Global Director for Environment Valeria Hickey, attending the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals in Samarkand, noted that large-scale events are being held in Uzbekistan on environmental protection were being highly commended by world organizations. She emphasized that the organization supported Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s initiatives.

Shavkat Mirziyoev signed the Privatization of State-owned property Bill into Law, the Legal Information channel said in a statement.

Uzgidromet announced the Tashkent city weather forecast. On Friday afternoon there will be occasional precipitation (rain, snow), with no precipitation on weekends. Fog is possible at night and in the morning.

On February 13 in Tashkent, the Minister of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change Aziz Abdukhakimov and the chief of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Carlos Rodriguez discussed the implementation of the fund’s projects in Uzbekistan, the press service of the Ministry of Ecology said in a statement.

Uzbekistan climbed 1 place to rank 149th out of 167 in the Democracy Index 2022, the Economist Intelligence Units Democracy Index 2023 said in its released report on Thursday.

Uzgidromet announced the weather forecast on Friday for the Tashkent city. The weather in Tashkent will be slightly cloudy, with occasional rain, which may turn to snow in the evening. The temperature will be +9...+11 degrees Celsius range at night and in the morning, and will drop to +2...+4 degrees during the day.

Telecommunications sector independent regulator was proposed to be set up in Uzbekistan in the presentation on key strategic reforms for 2024, which was presented to the president Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Tuesday.

Footages surfaced on social networks in which a man known as a Kokand quack who was treating people and during the process he was guarded by young people in a special uniform similar to the military wear, with walkie-talkies in their hands.

Rector of the University of Journalism and Mass Communications Sherzod Kudratkhodzha spoke in an interview with Kirill Altman about people living in Uzbekistan who do not speak the Uzbek language.

Meeting took place with the managing director of Uzbekistan Business Consultants, Peter Margetts at the Embassy of Uzbekistan in the UK. During the talks, the parties exchanged opinions on the ways step up cooperation with Uzbekistan, implementation of joint projects, attraction of foreign investments.

Belarusian tractors could be assembled in Uzbekistan, UzA reported with reference to Belta news agency. Reportedly, the Minsk Motor Plant and Planeta Servis reached an agreement on a new project aimed at organizing the assembly of diesel generators and compressor stations in Uzbekistan. In this regard, license agreements have been signed to start the assembly of Belarusian agricultural machinery.

An IUCN-led international partnership has launched the One Health Central Asia initiative, aiming to mitigate the risk of zoonoses – diseases that are naturally transmissible from animals to humans – in Central Asia.

Prosecutor of Kogon district of Bukhara province, Bahodir Ghulomov, was caught by State Security officers while he was receiving US$ 90 thousand. Reportedly, he received the money in exchange for the cancellation of the preventive measure of imprisonment and for a more lenient sentence in the criminal case.