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Preliminary results indicate Uzbekistan’s incumbent president Shavkat Mirziyoyev has been reelected with a towering 87.1 percent of ballots cast in a vote that most analysts believed was a foregone conclusion, Radio Free Europe reported. Sunday’s early polls come months after Uzbeks approved in a referendum a...

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Need to Know

April 27, 2023

More for Everyone

Uzbekistan

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev feels like staying around for a while. That’s why voters in Uzbekistan have started marking their ballots in a referendum that would let him remain in office until 2040. If voters approve the new constitution, the document would then “nullify” the two terms...

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The World Briefly

July 05, 2022

The Straw and the Camel

Uzbekistan

At least 18 people died and more than 240 others were injured during clashes between protesters and security forces in the northwestern Uzbek province of Karakalpakstan, a rare outbreak of unrest in the repressive Central Asian nation over autonomy, Al Jazeera reported Monday. Officials said they...

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