Author: Soli Muzafarov

Uzbekistan has resumed gas imports from Turkmenistan, Azernews reports per Uzbek Uztransgaz Company. According to the source, on January 21, 2023, Turkmenistan’s Türkmengaz state-owned company resumed gas supplies to Uzbekistan. Due to an accident that occurred at the Galkanish gas field of Turkmenistan since January 12, 2023 gas supply to Uzbekistan was stopped. Furthermore, Uzbekistan imported 16 million cubic meters of natural gas per day from Turkmenistan through the Daryalyk gas measuring network. Earlier in December 2022, Turkmenistan’s President Serdar Berdimuhamedov received the head of the Presidential Administration of Uzbekistan Sardor Umurzakov. During the meeting, the parties signed an agreement…

KABUL (Pajhwok): Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has asked Uzbekistan to provide electricity to Afghanistan in line with the agreement between the two nations. Earlier, Da Afghanistan Breshna Shirkat (DABS) said that electricity import contract with Uzbekistan extended for another one year. Addressing the inauguration gathering of the Afghanistan’s Agriculture Products Development Fund, Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said Afghanistan and Uzbekistan enjoyed good interaction through Hairatan Port and hoped that Tashkent will provide over 400MW electricity agreed between the two countries. “Uzbekistan has cut off electricity supply and people are facing trouble, the demand of brotherhood and…

US Ambassador to Uzbekistan Jonathan Henick presented 225 FLIR thermal monoculars to the Border Troops of the State Security Service of Uzbekistan. The Deputy Commander of the Border Troops COL Bakhtiyor Mansurov accepted the equipment on behalf of the Border Troops. The equipment was presented under the State Department-funded Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (NDF). The FLIR systems are valued at over $600,000 and are part of US security assistance provided to Uzbekistan. Since 2001, when the United States and Uzbekistan first signed the Defense Relations and Prevention of WMD Proliferation Agreement, the two countries have been integral partners in preventing…

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev will visit Kyrgyzstan next week. At a meeting of the committee on the fuel and energy complex, subsoil use and industrial policy in the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan, Deputy Minister of Economy and Commerce Ainura Usenbekova said that next week, on January 26, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev is expected to visit the country. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan reported that Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubaev will tell more about the visit at a press conference on Thursday. The day before, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kyrgyzstan reported that on January 26 a…

The draft of the presidential decree “On additional measures to further develop the transport infrastructure and introduce a digital traffic management system in the city of Tashkent” was published. The “Concept of increasing the capacity of the streets of Tashkent city with high traffic, introducing effective management of traffic flows and building overpasses” will be approved, which provides for the following: ꞏ preventing the occurrence of traffic jams and drastically reducing their number by creating a system of effective management and distribution of traffic passing through intersections and highways; ꞏ increasing the attractiveness of public transport by ensuring the priority…

International train number 369/370 on the route “Tashkent – Novosibirsk – Tashkent” will start operating from February 2, the press service of Uzbekistan Railways JSC reported. The train leaves Tashkent at 16:05 and arrives in Novosibirsk at 04:58. Travel time 2 days 12 hours 53 minutes. The price of a ticket in a carriage with seats is 1.7 million soums, in a compartment – 2.6 million soums. The train departs from Novosibirsk at 10:42 and arrives in Tashkent at 05:32. The train schedule can be checked here. It should be recalled that train traffic on this route was suspended in…

An employee, who entered the bear cage to feed the animal, was attacked and died on the spot. According to the Information Service of the Regional DIA, on January 3 at 16:00, an employee of the private zoo “Usmanabad Fayzi” LLC, located on the territory of the 27th Anniversary of Independence, Khodjaabad district, entered the cage to feed the bear, when the wild animal suddenly attacked and bit him. The incident was registered by the Khodjaabad district police department in accordance with the established procedure, and the scene was examined by the operational-investigative group of the district DIA. Forensic medical…

The analytical center Global Firepower has published a rating of the most powerful armies in the world. According to the data, Uzbekistan ranked 62nd out of 145 countries. Last year, Uzbekistan ranked 55th. Of the neighboring countries, Kazakhstan ranked 63rd, Turkmenistan – 82nd, Kyrgyzstan – 107th, Afghanistan – 114th and Tajikistan – 120th. The USA, Russia and China topped the list, respectively. Top-10 also included India, the UK, South Korea, Pakistan, Japan, France and Italy. Moldova, Benin and Bhutan were at the bottom of the ranking. Ukraine has risen to 15th place. In Uzbekistan, the total number of human resources…

In 2022, more than 118,000 license plates worth 304.1 billion soums were sold in the electronic trading system of the Uzbek Republican Commodity Exchange through transparent online auctions.According to the press service of the exchange, the average cost of one transaction amounted to 2.6 million soums. Reportedly, 91% of the sold license plates were purchased by individuals, 9% – by legal entities. The most expensive license plate was sold for 348.0 million soums during the reporting period. The largest number of license plates was purchased in the city of Tashkent, followed by Tashkent region, Samarkand and Kashkadarya. It is noteworthy…

The decision of the Cabinet of Ministers in this regard was submitted for discussion on the portal for discussion of normative-legal acts (regulation.gov.uz) until January 21 of this year. According to it, the main tasks of this branch will be to train qualified medical personnel in the region, to implement the advanced experience of foreign higher education institutions, as well as to increase the potential of the branch’s scientific-pedagogical personnel by regularly sending talented young graduates to the republican and foreign higher education institutions and scientific centers for master’s and doctoral studies. After receiving a positive conclusion from the State…