Friday, 06, March, 2026

National

Uzbekistan abstained from voting on a United Nations General Assembly draft resolution that called for an immediate, complete, and unconditional ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia.

On February 6, the Bustan District Criminal Court of Andijan province sentenced a 24-year-old man who was recruited by the Russian army in its invasion of Ukraine.

Wolt will be permanently closing its service in Uzbekistan from 5th March 2026, Clients will no longer be able to place orders through the service’s app or website, the company said in a statement on its website.

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a Specially Designated Nationals List Update, which includes an Uzbek national Azizjon Mamashoev, 38, and the company Advance Security Solutions.

Uzbekistan's first toll road project between Urgench and Khiva has begun in Khorezm province, the Uzbekistan 24 TV channel said in a story.

Criminal case has been opened in Fergana following the mass poisoning of children in public kindergartens, the Fergana Province Police Department (FPPD) said.

Today, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the Belarussian Prime Minister Alexander Turchin, the presidential press service said.

As part of the visit of the delegation led by the Tashkent province governor Zoyir Mirzaev and the Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Russia Botir Asadov to Bashkortostan, the parties discussed ways to expand cooperation between the provinces, and unveiled one of the main joint projects: the Uzbekistan-Bashkir technopark project in Bekabad district.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev addressed the meeting with youth at Koksaroy residence. More than 60,000 young people from Karakalpakstan, provinces and Tashkent city are participating in the meeting.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a government meeting on progress of major energy projects, ensuring sustainability of the power system, and improving energy efficiency, the presidential press service said.

The president Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree awarding Jasorat (Courage) medal to Khairullo Ibodullaev, a janitor in St. Petersburg, Russia. On February 22, Khairullo, 36, caught a 7-year-old boy who had fallen from a seventh-floor window.

The president Shavkat Mirziyoyev reviewed the progress of his previous directives to improve the performance of Uzbekneftegaz on Monday.

Pilot projects for artificial rainfall, or cloud seeding, will be deployed in Uzbekistan, based on the experience of France, China, and Saudi Arabia. This is envisaged by a decree of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the state program for 2026.

Religious figure and founder of Azon media group, Alisher Tursunov, aka Mubashshir Akhmad, was temporarily transferred to Specialized Hospital for Convicts No. 23 in Tashkent on Friday. His lawyer, Abdulloh Sodiq confirmed this information. The first to report this news was the director of Ezgulik human rights society Abdurakhmon Tashanov.

A 35-year-old man who was being held in a pre-trial detention center in Kattakurgan district of the Samarkand province died. According to official information, he died while being taken to the hospital due to deteriorating health.

Sixty-two children from three Fergana kindergartens (No. 2, No. 58, and No. 61) have been hospitalized with a diagnosis of acute diarrheal disease of alimentary etiology. The Fergana province health department said Monday.

The Embassy of Bangladesh in Tashkent, Uzbekistan observed the ‘Great Martyrs’ Day and International Mother Language Day’ in a befitting manner on the 21st February 2026 at the Embassy.

Last February, the Tashkent Police Department reported it arrested a man who, while intoxicated, harassed a schoolboy on bus route 98.

When patients see the phrase Moderate fluid collection in POD meaning on an ultrasound report, it often triggers immediate anxiety. I have seen this many times in clinic. A short technical line in a radiology summary suddenly becomes a late-night Google search and a thousand worst case scenarios. The truth is, in many cases, fluid in the pouch of Douglas can be normal, temporary, or related to a specific but manageable condition.

The Uzbekistan government is violating the human and labor rights of cotton and wheat farmers through a coercive state production system, Human Rights Watch and Uzbek Forum for Human Rights said in a report released today. These abuses continue despite recent agricultural reforms.