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Campaigners say widespread homophobia in the conservative Islamic country is being inflamed by calls to decriminalise same-sex unionsUzbekistan’s LGBTQ+ community says it is facing increasing threats and repression after anti-LGBTQ+ protests turned vio…
Read MorePhotographer Tomer Ifrah travelled between six post-Soviet countries: Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Russia, Belarus, Georgia and Armenia documenting city life on the metro, beginning in Moscow in 2012 and continuing until 2019. The images reveal personal storie…
Read MoreCalvert 22 Foundation and The Calvert Journal have announced the finalists of the New East photo prize 2020. This year marks the third edition of the competition, which celebrates contemporary photography from eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, and c…
Read MoreAncient artefacts from Samarkand will go on display in London before being returnedThe British Museum is to help repatriate six glazed tiles from a medieval memorial complex on the edge of Samarkand, which were brought into Heathrow in a suitcase.The m…
Read MoreAncient artefacts from Samarkand will go on display in London before being returnedThe British Museum is to help repatriate six glazed tiles from a medieval memorial complex on the edge of Samarkand, which were brought into Heathrow in a suitcase.The m…
Read MoreSpanish region’s move comes amid new outbreak; two charged with murder over bus driver assault in France; WHO says coronavirus cases are increasing by 200,000 a dayCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSpain’s northern Catalonia r…
Read MoreThe independent Ilkhom theatre in Tashkent opened under Soviet rule in 1976A cherished independent theatre in Uzbekistan is fighting eviction after realestate developers in the booming capital selected its historic location for a new business centre.Th…
Read MoreKadyr Yusupov’s family believes his ‘confession’ that he spied for a foreign government was coerced A secret court in Uzbekistan is poised to sentence a retired career diplomat to up to 20 years in prison on a treason charge that his family says is the…
Read MoreThe ancient Silk Road city once had a thriving Jewish population, which has shrunk to around 200On the first night of Hanukah, Benyamin Badalov ascends the platformed bimah in Bukhara’s central synagogue to recite the evening prayer.Among the handful o…
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