The Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Uzbekistan on a state visit on October 18–19. The press service of the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced a brief program of the visit.

Uzbek-Russian education forum will take place in Tashkent on October 18-19 at the initiative of the major universities of Uzbekistan and Russia.

The Ministry of Innovation and the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) signed a memorandum on creation of the International Aral basin Innovation Center under the President of Uzbekistan. It is planned that the center will be located in Karakalpakstan at the experimental station of Nukus State Forestry.

Tashkent’s Yakkasaray District Criminal Court announced the verdict against the defendants Murod Khanturayev, D. Vakhabov and I. Parpiev. The sources in the Supreme Court told the Tashkent Times.

Former deputy interior minister Tohir Aripov has been appointed as the chief of the Tashkent province police department. Tohir Aripov was appointed deputy interior minister in May. From July 2017 to July 2018, he had served as the head of the Office of patrol and public order under the Interior Ministry.

Five district mayors in the Tashkent province will not get two-month salaries for reported shortcomings in their work after Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited the province on Friday, sources told the Tashkent Times.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree Saturday raising wages to budget-financed organizations from November 1, as well as pensions, scholarships and benefits by an average of 10%.

The defense ministers of Uzbekistan and Russia signed an agreement on the use of the airspaces of the two countries by military aircrafts.

The Day of German Unity was marked on 10 October at the German Embassy in Uzbekistan. During the event, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany Günther Overfeld addressed the guests. He supported the reform efforts undertaken in Uzbekistan and spoke about the Uzbek-German ties.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev today hosted the heads of defense departments of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), who are visiting Uzbekistan to attend the meeting of the Council of CIS Defense Ministers.

Telephone conversation between President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev took place yesterday.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the visiting Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed Mohammad Ahmed el-Tayeb Thursday.

Next week I will go to Uzbekistan on a state visit, where a substantial package of documents will be signed and the nuclear power plant project will also be launched, the Russian President Vladimir Putin told RIA Novosti.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held an official meeting devoted to the Uzbek Armed Forces Wednesday, the press service of the head of state said.

The son of the late president Islam Karimov from his first marriage – Pyotr Karimov appealed to the Tver Court of Moscow for the recovery of money due from his now former employer.

The Uzbek-Russian Forum of Interregional Cooperation and the Moscow Days will be held October 18-20 in Uzbekistan, the Tashkent mayor’s office said in a statement.

Today kicked off the seminar of the mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the RosAtom working group in Tashkent.

The chairman of Uzbekneftegaz Bakhrom Ashrafkhanov met with the CEO of the oil and gas consultancy company Beicip-Franlab, Jean Burrus yesterday, Uzbekneftegaz said.

Uzbek sappers are demining the Uzbek-Tajik border jointly with Tajik counterparts in the direction of the cities of Penjikent and Samarkand, the head of the press-center of the Tajik Committee for National Security, Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Ulughodjaev told Asia Plus.

The Special Representative of the Uzbek President for Afghanistan Ismatulla Irgashev today met with Markus Potzel, Special Representative of the Federal Government of Germany for Afghanistan and Pakistan, the foreign ministry said.