Discover Invest, which is said to be connected to the Tashkent mayor Jahongir Ortiqkhojaev, was awarded yet another major government contract. The second company selected as the reserve winner in the tender is Mimar Group, which is also no stranger to the mayor.

Draft Approval of Temporary Procedure for Collection, Storage, Processing and Exchange of Biographical and Biometric Data of Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons Crossing the State Border of Uzbekistan Resolution has been published for public input.

Open trial in a criminal case against 45 defendants, including the former mayor and prosecutor of Andijan ended in the Ferghana province criminal court on December 26, the Supreme Court reported. The trial, which began on July 18, lasted 5.5 months.

Uzbekistan and Russia are discussing increasing the volume of gas supplies to Uzbekistan. Also, Russian gas can be delivered to Afghanistan through Uzbekistan.

The Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov held a meeting with the Minister of the Environment of Japan Akihiro Nishimura as part of his visit to Tokyo on December 23, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry reported.

The President Shavkat Mirziyoyev lands in St. Petersburg. At the Pulkovo airport he was welcomed by the Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov and other officials.

Deputy Foreign Minister Ghairat Fozilov hosted Ambassador of Poland Radosław Tomasz Gruk. The parties discussed the current state of bilateral ties and the ways to advance them and exchanged detailed views on the practical aspects of the previously reached agreements.

Former Tashkent city prosecutor Ulugbek Qosimov has been appointed acting governor of Surkhandarya province, replacing Tura Bobolov, the president’s spokesman Sherzod Asadov said.

Tokyo hosted the ninth meeting of foreign ministers of the Central Asia + Japan dialogue on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry said. The foreign ministers of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Japan explore the ways to strengthen cooperation between the countries of Central Asia and Japan in bilateral and multilateral formats in the transport connectivity, logistics, industrial cooperation, healthcare, education, and the green economy.

Criminal case has been initiated against a woman in Samarkand province who brutally beat her young child, the province police department said.

Dry weather is expected across most of Uzbekistan on Monday and Tuesday, Uzhydromet said. Only in the Bukhara, Navoi, Samarkand, Kashkadarya provinces, with movement of moist and warm air from Turkmenistan, light rain will pass in places, light precipitation (rain, snow) is possible in the north and the desert zone.

Today, the Central Election Commission considered the request to resign of the Uzlidep MP Rasul Kusherbayev. Only one of the members of the commission asked about the reasons for resigning the mandate, to which the chief of the CEC, Zainiddin Nizamkhojaev, said that the reasons were not specified in the request.

Termez International Airport was opened after reconstruction and received the first flight on December 26, the Uzbekistan Airports reported on Monday.

From January 1, 2023, in Uzbekistan, the number of standalone executive authorities subordinate to the government will be reduced from 61 to 28.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev will pay a working visit to St. Petersburg on December 26-27 to attend the informal meeting of the heads of state of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the presidential press service said.

The OPEC International Development Fund and the International Islamic Trade and Finance Corporation (ITFC) will provide Uzbekistan $100 million for the purchase of basic agricultural products.

In 2023, Kazakhstan will deliver 300,000 tons of oil and oil products to Uzbekistan. Could this lead to lower gas prices? The Ministry of Energy reported that a number of agreements were reached between the energy ministries and companies of the two countries within the framework of the visit of the President of Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan.

Yamal, as part of the winter flight program, launched once-a-week regular flights from St. Petersburg to the Uzbek cities of Namangan and Urgench.

The fourth round of hybrid political consultations between Uzbekistan and the United Kingdom took place in Tashkent. The parties discussed the Uzbekistan-UK ties, cooperation within multilateral structures and exchange views on expanding the political-diplomatic dialogue, filling the general agenda with practical content.

On December 22, the private Uzbek airline Panorama Airways made its first commercial flight on the Tashkent to Urgench route. The Airbus A320 aircraft with 144 passengers on board took off for the destination airport at 21:50 local time.