Shivering shoulders, stone castanets, and stories of love and kindness: these are some of the elements that make up Khorezm lazgi, an Uzbek folk dance recognized by UNESCO.

What do you get when you put together a U.S. diplomat, a septuagenarian Central Asian dictator, and a giant public celebration of the New Year? The answer, at least in the eyes of state broadcasters ...

Uzbekistan's 78-year-old President Islam Karimov appears to be very ill indeed after his government took the unprecedented step of confirming that he had been hospitalized on August 28. Although there ...