Russia to build nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan | Energy News

Russia to build nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan | Energy News

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev says Uzbekistan also interested in buying more oil and gas from Russia. Russia will build a small nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan, the first such project in post-Soviet Central Asia, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has said as he met visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin said on…

Did an arrested Uzbek ‘mafia chieftain’ organise killings of dissidents? | Politics News

Did an arrested Uzbek ‘mafia chieftain’ organise killings of dissidents? | Politics News

On his Swedish visa application, Yuri Zhukovsky said he was an administrator of Pakhtakor, ex-Soviet Uzbekistan’s most popular football club, and attached a letter of recommendation. The burly, dark-haired 35-year-old arrived in Stockholm in February 2012 and travelled hundreds of kilometres up to Sweden’s frigid north to the Arctic town…