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Karakalpakstan is a large autonomous republic located in western Uzbekistan. It is home to ethnic Karakalpaks, a Turkic people who speak a language closer to Kazakh than to Uzbek. Despite the geographic size of their republic, Karakalpaks number just 752,000, 2.2% of Uzbekistan's population. [10]
The first news service, Tele Janaliq (Теле Жаналиқ, Uzbek: Teleyangiliklar) consisted of five-minute bulletins in both Karakalpak and Russian languages. [2] From May 1965, the TV station increased from two hours to 2.5 hours per day, four days a week, and from January 1, 1966, three hours a day, six days a week, with the station ...
3 February - Alijan Ibragimov, 67, mining executive [3] 12 March - Stahan Rakhimov, 83, singer [4] 21 March - Xudoyberdi To'xtaboyev, 88, children's author 31 March - Tamara Chikunova, 72, human rights activist [5]
Karakalpakstan is now mostly desert and is located in western Uzbekistan near the Aral Sea, in the lowest part of the Amu Darya basin. [10] [9] [11] It has an area of 164,900 km 2 [12] and is surrounded by desert. The Kyzyl Kum Desert is located to the east and the Karakum Desert is located to the south.
[2] 2 July – 2022 Karakalpak protests: The government of Uzbekistan drops plans to strip Karakalpakstan of its autonomy amid widespread protests in the region. Internet access is restricted as regional protests continue for a second day, with the government accusing a "criminal gang" of trying to seize government buildings in Karakalpakstan. [3]
The 2019–2020 Uzbekistan protests were a series of spontaneous demonstrations and peaceful protest movements over social and political issues. Civil unrest has ravaged the country for a long time from July 2019, after a series of scandals and home demolitions caused severe anger.
That year was the first time that Uzbekistan assumed the presidency of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS. [25] Congratulating Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on the victory in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War , he pledged that Uzbekistan will to contribute to this process of restoration of the occupied territories, including mosques, and ...
The Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Karakalpak ASSR; Karakalpak: Қарақалпақстан АССР, Qaraqalpaqstan ASSR; Uzbek: Қорақалпоғистон АССР, Qoraqalpog‘iston ASSR; Russian: Каракалпакская АССР, Karakalpakskaya ASSR), also known as Soviet Karakalpakstan or simply Karakalpakstan, was an autonomous republic within the Soviet Union.