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The bird’s cultural significance may have aided its rapid dispersal.

Around 3,000 items of unique cultural value may have been stolen from 14 museums.

Changing tastes threaten askiya, a centuries-old Uzbek tradition that prizes wit, improvisation, and mastery of language.

Tashkent is regretting its early embrace of the Chinese app.

Eldor Shomurodov’s success making it into one of Europe’s most important national football leagues has generated a fresh flurry of ambition among young Uzbek players.

A new documentary on a Soviet soccer star also tells the story of Central Asia’s ethnic Korean community, which was deported en masse to the region by Stalin.

Getting a proficiency certificate could be required from 2023.

Today celebrated for blending classical music with Turkish folk tunes, Anjelika Akbar’s education was strictly Soviet, intolerant to non-classical styles.

Developers last week ordered the troupe to vacate the premises by April.

Ferghana Valley silk weavers worry that industrial production could gradually extinguish their artisanal approach.

A huge number of people are complaining that the shows are immoral.

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky’s first trip to Central Asia in 1907 was a bust – except for the photographs he made.

As the partying carried on into the night, locals’ wariness faded and they joined in the fun.

The Maqom Art International Forum was a Disneyland of Uzbek culture with something for everyone.

A cheeky theater is not what many expect to find in Uzbekistan. But Ilkhom Theater has long pushed boundaries.