Author: Zachary Mills

The Moscow-based son of late Uzbek President Islam Karimov, Pyotr Karimov, has filed a civil lawsuit against his stepmother and Uzbekistan’s former first lady, Tatyana Karimova, over unspecified inheritance issues. Tashkent’s Yakassaroy district court placed a list of hearings of civil lawsuits scheduled for June 26 in which the case Pyotr Karimov Versus Tatyana Karimova was included. Pyotr Karimov, 54, was born during Islam Karimov’s first marriage to Natalya Kuchma. Tatyana Karimova, Islam Karimov’s second wife, was Uzbekistan’s first lady from the Central Asian nation’s independence in 1991 until her husband’s death in 2016. Source: RFERL

On Easter Sunday, April 9, police raided the Council of Churches Baptist congregation in Karshi in the southern Kashkadarya Region during its morning worship meeting. “Police officers and officials damaged the door of the prayer house, behaved crudely, and arrested three church members,” Baptists told Forum 18 the same day. Baptists state that police tortured church members. “Today police brutally beat David Ibragimov and a few more church members in front of our fellow believers,” they said. “They also used electric shock prods and other implements to incapacitate the brothers and sisters. Church members cried and prayed during those difficult…

In 2022, Chile updated its own global record in fresh plum exports of 2019, EastFruit analysts report. Chilean fruit exporters supplied 158 000 tonnes of fresh plums worth $235 million to foreign markets in 2022. In terms of volume, exports grew by a third over the year and exceeded the previous record of 2019 by 3 000 tonnes. Thus, Chile secured its leadership in the exports of fresh plums. South Africa and Spain, following Chile, lag behind the leader by almost 60 000 tonnes. By the way, Uzbekistan made a huge leap in this global ranking in 2022 and ended up fourth…

A Memorandum of Understanding and Agreement on cooperation was signed between AzerGold CJSC and the Ministry of Mining and Geology of Uzbekistan, Azernews reports, citing the company. The memorandum was signed within the framework of the 1st Uzbekistan-Azerbaijan Interregional Forum organized in Tashkent, by the Export and Investment Promotion Agency (AZPROMO), and with the support of the Ministry of Investments, Industry and Trade of Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Economy of Azerbaijan. According to the company, the memorandum includes the establishment of joint cooperation in the field of geological exploration and development of discovered gold deposits in Uzbekistan. The document was signed…