Driving through Tashkent feels like flipping through an architecture picture book teeming with examples of Soviet brutalist ... buildings in Uzbekistan’s capital city whiz by like a carousel ...

In April 1942, 77 Soviet soldiers from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan were executed at the so-called Untermenschenfriedhof at the concentration camp in Amersfoort. Instead of the spot now marked by the ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Uzbekistan became independent. Eager to promote Uzbek culture, its new government changed the names of some of these stations. There's no longer a Lenin ...

Within Uzbekistan, where 60% of the population is under 30 years old, not everyone is particularly enamored with vestiges of its Soviet past. Young Uzbeks often opt to live in Western-style ...