On January 20, Barak Obama took an oath of the United States President. The White House will now be administered by a democrat. The US Embassy in Tashkent has organized a press-conference, where they described the inauguration. America hopes for the improvement of democracy and economy in the country...

The number one political event in Uzbekistan was its withdrawal from EAEC organization. Uzbekistan was already absent at the last summit of EAEC. Interestingly the local mass media have not mentioned anything about a diplomatic note, which was sent in mid-October by the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Uzbekistan to the secretariat of EAEC...

This year the population of Uzbekistan is seen very actively participating in the local councils elections. Just two years ago many citizens simply ignored the voting, considering it useless. Now people are saying that they need trustworthy official representatives. Uzbek makhalya is a city district, which includes several residential premises. Residents of these districts elect their own chair, an Aksakal, who deals with problems...

For the first time in the history of Central Asian countries a woman was appointed as a speaker in the Parliament of Uzbekistan. Tashmuhamedova Dilorom became the leader of the Parliament after the anonymous vote of Uzbek legislators. As reported by Press.uz.info Agency, Tashmuhamedova previously worked as a deputy speaker and became a number one candidate when the speaker resigned from his post due to health problem...

Yesterday the President of Uzbekistan met special representative of European Union in Central Asia Pierre Morel in Oksaroy Residency, reports UzA. The high ranking guest expressed his gratitude to Islam Karimov for hospitable reception and congratulated him with being reelected at the position of the President of Uzbekistan...

Initiation Ceremony in conjunction with Islam Karimov taking the post of the President was held during the joint session of the Legislative Branch and Senate of Uzbek Parliament today. The event was attended by country’s key officials, including ministers, heads of national state organizations, members of Central Election Commission, Judges of the Constitutional Court of Uzbekistan, as well as representatives of diplomatic missions, local and foreign mass media.

According to Press-Uz Information Agency, at the request of the speakers of the two Parliament chambers, the Chairman of the Central Elections Commission opened the session...

President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov is reshuffling the government. On January 2nd Karimov signed a decree on “appointment of Rustam Azimov in the position of the First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finances and Head of Economical and External Economy Complex of Uzbekistan...”

Central Elections Commission of Uzbekistan announced that Islam Karimov, the current head of the state won the Presidential Elections held on December 23, according to preliminary results. More than 88% of electorate has voted for Karimov, while other candidates could collect only three percent of total votes on average.

14.765.444 citizens out of 16.297.400 registered voters participated in the Presidential Elections last Sunday. This figure makes up a total 90.6% voters turnout. As 50% voters showed up by midday the Elections were confirmed as completed...

By midday today the Presidential Elections in Uzbekistan were recognized as completed. It was announced by Mirzo-Ulugbek Abdusalomov, the Chairman of the Central Elections Commission of Uzbekistan during the press-briefing. As of the 4 PM more than 12 million 855 thousand people out of total 16 million 297 thousand 400 registered citizens have already voted, thus making 78.9% voters turnout, which allows to recognize the Elections of 2007 as completed, according to the article 35 of the Law “on the Presidential Elections of Uzbekistan”...

It is officially prohibited to conduct surveys and publish their results during the Presidential Elections Day in Uzbekistan. Therefore no exit-polling will take place in Uzbekistan on December 23. Press-briefings regarding the elections process will be held three times a day...