Newly announced funding for several initiatives has the potential to support sustainable growth, improved healthcare, and effective governance in Uzbekistan.
The referendum may be a way of employing old tricks to extend Mirziyoyev’s rule, but a total reversion to the “old ways” could also prove detrimental to his regime.
Although protests this year in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan took place in different contexts, with different triggers, there are some similarities worth highlighting.