President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, who visited Moscow on a working visit on Tuesday, met with Russian president Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.

Tashkent province’s Akkurgan District Criminal Court on May 8 sentenced 21-year-old student Jakhongir Ulugmurodov to three years in prison for distributing a Muslim song, the press service of Supreme Court said.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the participation of the leaders of Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow on May 9.

At the invitation of Russian president Vladimir Putin, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev left for Moscow on a working visit, the president’s spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

"Now we will never head back from the path of our reforms" - Shavkat Mirziyoev. He added that millions of fellow actively participated in the discussions of the draft constitution, and that there was every reason to say that the real author of the updated Constitution is our people.

The British Ministry of Defense in its daily review of the Ukraine war reported about the attempts of the Russian authorities to recruit labor migrants from Central Asian countries for the hostilities.

At the invitation of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan, President Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan, President Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan and President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan will pay a state visit to China respectively from May 16 to 20, the Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying announced.

In the new Constitution of Uzbekistan, the number of provisions devoted to protection of human rights has been tripled. The first article of the document says that Uzbekistan is a state of law.

“Uzbekistan is a secular state, and it will remain such,” President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said at a meeting with the heads of the chambers of parliament, parties, the judiciary and the executive on Monday.

President of Uzbekistan signed a decree on holding the early presidential elections for July 9, 2023. Shavkat Mirziyoyev also explained why this decision was necessary.

Today, on May 5, Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Alikhan Smailov, who arrived in Tashkent to attend the next meeting of the joint intergovernmental commission.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Additional measures to boost the tourism potential of the Republic, as well as to further increase the flow of local and foreign tourists Resolution.

Draft amendments and addenda to some legal documents in connection with the adoption of additional measures to further expand access to justice and increase the efficiency of the courts Bill has been posted announced.

Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov held talks with his Kazakh counterpart Alikhan Smailov on the eve of the 20th meeting of the intergovernmental commission on bilateral cooperation in Tashkent.

French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing to visit Uzbekistan this year, today announced the Minister of Investments, Industry and Trade Laziz Qudratov.

During the visit to Switzerland, the Minister of Natural Resources of Uzbekistan Aziz Abduhakimov held talks with the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)/UN Deputy Secretary General, O. Algaerova, the Director of the Environment Division of UNECE, M. Keiner, the ECE Regional Advisor, S. Radnaaragchaa and with Secretary to the UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution A. Karadjova.

Air temperature in Uzbekistan will drop in the weekend, Uzhydromet reported. On May 5, in the afternoon, over most of the territory of Uzbekistan, cloudy, dry and warm weather is expected with air temperatures in the range of +24 ... +29 degrees Celsius.

The Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov, who is in Goa, India, met yesterday with the Foreign Minister of India, Subramanyam Jaishankar.

Today, on May 4, the Legislative Chamber held its regular meeting. According to the press service of the Parliament, during the meeting in the second reading, the Introducing addenda and amendments to Article 208 of the Labor Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan Bill was considered.

Special working group, which was created on the instruction of Shavkat Mirziyoyev, is working to resolve the problem related to US sanctions against the Akhangarancement cement plant and its founder Akkermann Cement CA. This was announced at a press conference on May 4 by Mamarizo Nurmuratov, chairman of the Central Bank.