Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have settled all technical aspects of the multiple-entry Silk Road tourist visa, with domestic procedures remaining, Deputy PM/Minister of Tourism and Sports Aziz Abdukhakimov told RIA Novosti.

The Chilonzor and Uzbekistan lines of the Tashkent metro will temporarily operate on a new schedule from May 21.

Today another batch of 1 million doses of the ZF-UZ-VAC2001 coronavirus vaccine was delivered to Tashkent from China, the Ministry of Health said.

On May 17, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with a presentation on measures to improve the national system of technical regulation, standardization, certification and metrology, the presidential press service said in a statement.

On May 14, a joint communiqué was signed in New York on the establishment of diplomatic relations between Uzbekistan and the Commonwealth of Dominica, the Dunyo news agency said in a statement.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, during a conversation with residents of Tepakurgon mahalla of Uchtepa district of Tashkent on May 14, commented on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The People's Artist of Uzbekistan, the artistic director of Diydor theater-studio Bakhodir Yuldashev died aged 75, the Uzbekistan Cinematography Agency reported.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will attend the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council this week, the spokesman to the presdent Sherzod Asadov said at a briefing on Monday.

The Investigation Department under the Andijan province police department is conducting an investigation into the complaint of a 20-year-old resident of the Andijan province about gang rape by six men, the General Prosecutor's Office of Uzbekistan.

An audio recording surfaced on social media, which refers to a police scheme called "Beard", within which individuals with beards are to be identified, and to be photographed before and after shaving.

Officers of the State Security Service, together with other departments, arrested several officials red-handed while receiving a bribe, the Uzbekistan 24 TV channel reported.

The Environmental Protection Committee, which issued permits to kill two brown bears, revoked its permit for the second after one bear was killed.

On May 13, the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the presidential press service said.

The Deputy PM/Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade Sardor Umurzakov hosted the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Tajikistan Zavkizod Zavki Amin.

Uzbekistan welcomes the announcement in Afghanistan of a three-day truce on the occasion of the holy holiday of Eid al-Fitr, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The helicopter operator Uzbekistan Helicopters, a subsidiary of Uzbekistan Airways, has placed an order for the supply of four single-engine Airbus helicopters: two H125 and two H130.

In large cities, provincial and district centers of Uzbekistan by September 1 will be created shopping and entertainment streets, where businesses will be allowed to work around the clock. This was stipulated by the president’s Measures for swift development of the services sector Decree of May 11.

With the permission of Alisher Maksudov, the chairman of the State Committee for Ecology and Environmental Protection, a brown bear listed in the Red Book was killed by a Russian hunter in the Tashkent province.

On May 11, on the sidelines of the second ministerial meeting of the Central Asia - China format in Xi'an, Abdulaziz Kamilov met with the Kyrgyz counterpart Ruslan Kazakbaev.

Due to the spread of the coronavirus, Uzbekistan will suspend flights to Japan, the Uzbekistan Airways said in a statement.