European Union foreign ministers are expected to postpone until May any decision on the fate of EU sanctions against Uzbekistan when they gather in Brussels on March 5.

Energy talks have ended in the Uzbek capital without a breakthrough that would allow for energy-hungry Tajikistan to import Turkmen electricity.

A report by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights says that there is "systematic persecution" of rights activists in Uzbekistan.

An October 2006 agreement on visa-free travel between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan came into force today.

Uzbek authorities say they have registered violations in the activities of a U.S. nongovernmental organization.

Uzbek officials in Tashkent say a helicopter belonging to the Defense Ministry has crashed in a Kazakh border area, killing the pilot.

Uzbekistan says it will take "measures" against some 10 foreign organizations operating in the country because they are breaching the law.

Uzbeks who were victims of the May 2005 violence in the eastern city of Andijon are appealing a decision by Germany's federal prosecutor not to investigate former Uzbek Interior Minister Zokir Almatov.

The U.S.-based rights advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) today expressed concern over the fate of Uzbek rights activist Umida Niyazova, who has not been heard from since January 22, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports.

January 22 should have been a big day in Uzbekistan. It's the day that President Islam Karimov's term expired. But instead it passed virtually unnoticed -- at least by the broader public.

Uzbek President Islam Karimov has left Tashkent for a three-day state visit to Singapore that ends on January 26.

Opponents to Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov say his term in office constitutionally expired today, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reported.