Most people have probably never heard of Nukus in western Uzbekistan. Yet, tucked away in this corner of the world resides the world’s second largest collection of Russian avant-garde art, Al Jazeera ...

When the trial of 22 people accused of involvement in the violent unrest that rocked the autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan began last month, the authorities made a show of arguing that the ...

The government in Uzbekistan wanted to show it was going to be different this time. Less than two weeks after the capital of the semi-autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan descended into bloody chaos ...

Fears for a legendary art collection in the desert town of Nukus led to activists and volunteers preserving the treasures with photographs on a new website. Nine hundred pieces from Uzbekistan’s Nukus ...

Few visitors to Uzbekistan in Central Asia make it as far west as Nukus, a city whose rigid grid of streets reveals it to be the product of Soviet-era planning. Unlike ancient Samarkand, Bokhara and ...

Tigran Mkrtychev, a former museum director from Russia, has won an international competition to head the Nukus Museum in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, renowned for its Russian avant-garde art collection ...

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said on Sunday there were casualties among civilians and police officers after rare protests in the Central Asian country, and an exiled opposition politician ...

Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev Saturday announced that he would not proceed with a planned constitutional reform to remove the autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan‘s right to secede from ...

Activist Polat Shamshetov, who on January 31 was handed a prison term along with 21 other people for taking part in unprecedented anti-government protests in Uzbekistan's Autonomous Republic of ...

TASHKENT, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has signed a decree on measures to create the Nukus Free Economic Zone (FEZ) to attract foreign investment to the northwest of the ...