An official from Uzbekistan's monument preservation office told RFE/RL that the Soviet monument was moved to a workshop where several other Soviet-era monuments are kept. In November, officials ...

Uzbek Dissident NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan on a poet named Yusuf Dzumayev whose verses have landed him prison. Uzbekistan is a key U.S. ally in the ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Uzbekistan became independent. Eager to promote Uzbek culture, its new government changed the names of some of these stations. There's no longer a Lenin ...