TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Tethys Petroleum said it hopes to strike a deal with Uzbekistan this year to develop a highly prospective block, after winning the right to develop another oil field in the Central Asian nation. Tethys, listed in London and Toronto, said...

Uzbekistan's government says it plans to sell off almost 500 state assets over the next two years in an ongoing drive to expand the private sector in this former Soviet nation. ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Uzbekistan's government...

A mass fight between citizens of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan resulted in dozens of arrests, with at least one person hospitalized. A mass fight between citizens of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan resulted in dozens of arrests, with at least one person hospitalized. Police responded to a caller Sunday evening...

... operates a 3,500-soldier force with a structure resembling that of NATO. The CSTO summit was held simultaneously with an informal meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which includes the members of the CSTO and other countries like Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova. Meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych on the sidelines of the summit, Putin called on Ukraine to ratify a free trade agreement it has signed along with other CIS states. Relations between Russia...

... worked his way steadily upward. A key moment was his appointment in 2001 as director of Gazprominvestholding, which raises money abroad for the state-controlled gas giant and directs investments. He is still in the post. In 2000 the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan ruled that Usmanov's alleged crimes never took place. Today Usmanov's business interests stretch across multiple continents and range from high-technology firms like Twitter, Groupon and Zynga to mining and metals conglomerate Metalloinvest...

... crude. "The most important thing is that this oil is processed here, so that we will have gasoline, diesel, fuel oil," he said. Kyrgyzstan produces only about 11 percent of the oil and gas it consumes and depends on Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan for other refined products. Kyrgyzstan's state geology agency estimates the country has the potential to hold 765 million to 1.36 billion tons of hydrocarbon reserves. It estimates reserves within the license areas held by Chzhunnen at about...

... universities on the list include eight in Australia, three in Israel, two in Brazil, two in New Zealand, two in Singapore and one in South Africa. Apart from this new list, the state recognizes university diplomas from fellow former Soviet republics excluding Uzbekistan, and vice versa, reported Rossiiskaya Gazeta, an official mouthpiece of the Russian government. A four-month bureaucratic procedure still lies ahead of graduates from other foreign universities who want to have their diplomas officially recognized...

... he'll be having a massive liquidity event. It's quite incredible. It could be that he creates a huge holding company, … or he could make a run at a big international company," the source said. Usmanov, 58, born in the Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, also controls iron-ore miner Metalloinvest, Kommersant newspaper, television assets and has a stake in London football club Arsenal. Unlike Russia's tycoons who won control of empires through the loans-for-share privatization schemes in the...

... 2003 — 2005 Imperial Tobacco/Reemtsma Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Export Director Central Asia After the take-over of Reemtsma by the British Imperial Tobacco: Successful market entry into Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Development of the existing business in Mongolia 2000 — 2002 Reemtsma International, Dubai, UAE Area Manager Middle East Development of the Reemtsma portfolio with local distributors in 9...