A large memorial to Poletayev that had stood on the same spot since 1972 was demolished, to the dismay of many local people, in 2014. As in other parts of the former Soviet Union, Uzbekistan has a ...

PRAGUE -- The pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi says it will demonstrate against the removal of a Soviet war memorial from Uzbek capital, Tashkent, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports. Nashi said in an ...

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 ...

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 ...

This came in the form of the Soviet luxury hotel — Hotel Uzbekistan. Such symbolic contradictions wouldn’t leave me throughout my travels from Tashkent to Bukhara, as I saw Soviet-built mass housing ...

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 ...