On June 1-2, 2025, the Second Uzbek-Chinese Interregional Forum, a large-scale event aimed at strengthening strategic partnership, developing interregional cooperation and expanding investment and ...

On April 4, 2025, the first-ever summit between leaders of the EU and the five countries of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) took place in Samarkand ...

Samarkand will soon see the arrival of senior policymakers from Central Asia and Europe: the Presidents of the European Council and European Commission are expected to attend, in addition to the ...

In this episode of Silk Road Adventures, we uncover Samarkand’s enduring legacy—where Silk Road traders once gathered, artisans still craft silk paper, and ancient murals reveal lost ...

China’s First Domestic Cats Took the Silk Road 1,400 Years Ago, New Study Finds The analysis found the oldest domestic cat dated to the Tang Dynasty, when trade was at its peak.

After being in prison for more than 11 years for his involvement with the darknet marketplace Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht appears to have wasted no time making public appearances. In a March 4 X post ...

Trump had planned to commute the life sentence of the founder of the Silk Road online drug bazaar at the end of his first term, according to former U.S. officials and a political consultant who ...

Ross Ulbricht, founder of the now-defunct darknet drug market previously known as Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him free and hinted at his future plans in a video posted to X.

Donald Trump has used his presidential powers to pardon convicted felon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of notorious dark web marketplace Silk Road. Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015, on ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he issued a pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison nearly a decade ago for creating the Silk Road, a website law enforcement called the ...

The Silk Road site was set up by Ulbricht in 2011 on the dark web, a part of the internet that's inaccessible to traditional search engines. It did not accept cash or credit cards; users had to ...