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Central Asia Is Less Stable Than It Looks

Posted August 31st, 2016 at 2:17 pm (UTC-4)
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So the president of Uzbekistan is officially undead, but very likely in the twilight zone dictators enter when they are about to give up power….Uzbekistan has a population of 30 million, 40 percent under the age of 25. There’s not enough work to go around…Karimov kept Uzbekistan secular by the sheer force of his security apparatus…