Uzbekistan’s General Prosecutor’s Office has placed two Russians on an international wanted list in connection with attempted assassination of Komil Allamjonov, the former press secretary to the country’s president.

Gayrat Dustov couldn’t fill his tank. His anger landed him in jail for 15 days but engendered sympathy among the public.

The construction process has begun for a railway that will connect China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, bypassing Russia. The new railway will facilitate the transportation of goods from China through Central Asia to European Union countries,

Experts say evidence in the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Kazakhstan points to a possible midair explosion, not an encounter with a flock of birds.

ANALYSIS By Kirill Babaev, PhD, director of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences,

Russian president chairs informal meeting of Commonwealth of Independent States leaders in Leningrad region - Anadolu Ajansı

The new route, part of China's economic expansion efforts, aims to expand Chinese commercial influence in Central Asia and Europe while bypassing Russian territory.

The crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan has killed 38 of 67 people on board. Azerbaijan Airlines’ Embraer 190 was en route from Azerbaijani capital Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus on Wednesday when it was diverted for reasons that aren’t fully clear yet.

Several employees of Beeline and Mobiuz mobile operators in Uzbekistan have been found guilty of selling customer databases to representatives of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense and information and Psychological operations units (CIP) of Ukraine.

Uzbeks burn coal, cut down trees for firewood, and gather manure to heat their homes amid energy shortages in the gas-rich country. Experts warn about the air pollution and other catastrophic damages to the environment.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed this week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally, and criticized Moscow for trying to "hush up" the issue for days.

On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, officially came into existence, as leaders gathered in the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to sign the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.