A building in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Ethnic Tajiks are traditionally concentrated in the cities of Bukhara and Samarkand, but are present in all regions of Uzbekistan. Credit: Steve Swerdlow ...

Equally, Uzbekistan comprises multiple distinct ethnic groups who are all, in a legal sense, Uzbek, and yet their ethnic identity may well be more important to them.

Another recent event -- the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in August -- made the Islamization look more worrisome to Uzbekistan's ethnic Russian community of some 720,000 (there were about 1.65 ...

(Osh) - The Kyrgyz and Uzbek governments should open their borders to allow members of the ethnic Uzbek population in southern Kyrgyzstan to seek protection in Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch said ...