The Russian president Vladimir Putin by the September 5 decree appointed Alexey Erkhov as new ambassador to Uzbekistan, to replace Oleg Malginov who had worked since March 2021.

Mostly partly cloudy and moderately hot weather will prevail across Uzbekistan on Friday and the weekend, Uzhydromet said.

Five workers fell into an 8-meter-deep sewer manhole on the afternoon of Thursday in Bukhara city and were carried away by the current, the Bukhara province police department said.

On September 1, a number of Kyrgyz online news publications reported, citing the country's border service, that Uzbek border guards had shot down two Kyrgyz citizens. A report of missing two residents of Aygyr-Zhal village in Chatkal district was received by law enforcement agencies in Kyrgyzstan on August 25.

Pedestrian was fatally hit in Yangiyul district of Tashkent province in August 2025, the Millar TV program reported today. Video footage shows a GM Spark driver who was at high speed trying to evade hitting a younger boy steered to the left and hit a 21-year-old guy who was also crossing the road. As a result of the accident, the pedestrian died at the scene from the injuries he sustained.

A local resident was tortured in the Namangan police department, the head of the Ezgulik human rights society, Abdurakhmon Tashanov said on his Facebook page.

The Senate passed the Improving the effectiveness of morale building work with convicts serving sentences in penitentiary institutions bill Thursday.

The authorities have identified the land plots in Tashkent province for the new international airport project. According to the press service of the province’s Cadastre Agency, 1,309.76 hectares will be allocated for the project.

Senior investigator of the investigative department of Angren police department has been arrested on suspicion of receiving a bribe in Tashkent province, the press service of the State Security Service said.

Uzbekistan and China have agreed on power projects, with plans to erect pumped-storage power plants, construct new transmission lines, and train personnel in renewables.

Major fast-food franchise company Mom’s Touch will open its first restaurant in Uzbekistan, launching its bid to expand its market to countries in Central Asia and Middle East, the company said Monday.

A medical waste incinerator plant was commissioned near the city hospital No. 16 in Tashkent. 90 thousand tons of medical waste are generated annually in Uzbekistan, said Jamshid Khasanov, chief expert at the Waste Management and Circular Economy Development Agency. Until now, they have been taken to special landfills, like other types of waste.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held talks with the President of Russia Vladimir Putin in Beijing Tuesday, the presidential press service said.

In Angren, a truck rammed a Yutong bus of the city public transport fleet. The video footage shows that the impact of the hit was so powerful that it threw the driver out of the cabin; there is no information about the victims and their condition; officials have not yet commented the event.

Uzbekistan and Moldova will switch to a permitless bilateral system for road freight transportation, the Ministry of Transport said today.

The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Tashkent has the honour to inform that the Indonesian Government has launched All Indonesia, which serves as a single digital platform for immigration, customs, health, and quarantine arrival declaration for all international passengers.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, together with the leaders of more than 20 countries, attended the military parade on Tiananmen Square in Beijing on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II on September 3. Shavkat Mirziyoyev was accompanied by his wife.

The Deputy Minister of Transport Jasurbek Choriev hosted Chan Man Hin, Deputy Chairman at JDB Group Limited stationed in the Special Administrative Region of China.

The Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between Uzbekistan and the European Union is expected to be signed in Brussels on October 24, the President of the European Council António Costa said in his congratulatory message to the President Mirziyoyev on the occasion of Independence Day.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev met with the Chairman of the DOD of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) Dai Houliang in Beijing, the presidential press service said.