Uzbekistan News » Karakalpakstan News Uzbekistan » Karakalpakstan » History: Karakalpakstan is the most obscure and unique tourism destination in Uzbekistan
The Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan located in northwestern Uzbekistan has largely untapped tourism potential. When one thinks of tourism in Uzbekistan, the most immediate image that comes to ...
News Uzbekistan » Karakalpakstan » History: Uzbekistan: Why Karakalpakstan deserves its own guidebook
It was more than a decade ago that I first visited Nukus, the capital of the autonomous republic of Karakalpakstan, while researching the maiden edition of the Bradt Travel Guide to Uzbekistan. It was ...
News Uzbekistan » Karakalpakstan » History: Unrest in Remote Karakalpakstan Tests Uzbekistan's State, Society
Uzbekistan's desert region of Karakalpakstan lies astride the bone-dry Aral Sea. But it has another distinction besides its harsh climate: it has autonomy, and even the right to secede from Uzbekistan ...
News Uzbekistan » Karakalpakstan » History: Uzbekistan president backtracks on constitution to defuse Karakalpakstan tension
The president of Uzbekistan has flown to a restive semi-autonomous republic in the country’s west and ordered the scrapping of proposed constitutional amendments that would have spelled the end to any ...
News Uzbekistan » Karakalpakstan » History: Sins of the Aral Sea
The Aral Sea straddles Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and for thousands of years was fed by two major rivers, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya. Having no outflow, the sea’s water level was maintained ...
News Uzbekistan » Karakalpakstan » History: Why the world should pay attention to unrest in Karakalpakstan
Last week, rare protests in Uzbekistan’s autonomous Karakalpakstan region, which borders Kazakhstan in the country’s northwest, turned deadly. According to the government, 18 people died and 243 ...
News Uzbekistan » Karakalpakstan » History: Unrest in Central Asia: The Trouble in Karakalpakstan
Although protests this year in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan took place in different contexts, with different triggers, there are some similarities worth highlighting. Less than a week after ...
News Uzbekistan » Karakalpakstan » History: Reporter’s Notebook: Karakalpakstan Trials Test Justice in Uzbekistan
On January 31, when Uzbekistan found 22 Karakalpaks guilty of crimes against the state, VOA spoke with seven of them, including a prisoner who died four days later. Their stories reveal the ...
News Uzbekistan » Karakalpakstan » History: Uzbekistan says 18 killed, hundreds wounded in unrest
Eighteen people were killed and 243 wounded during unrest in Uzbekistan’s autonomous province of Karakalpakstan last week, Uzbek authorities said on Monday – the worst bout of violence in the Central ...