The election of Shavkat Mirziyoyev as president in December 2016 provided and massive and long-awaited change for Uzbekistan. It drew a welcome line under the regime of Islam Karimov who had guided the country to independence in the early 1990s but whose isolationist stance had seen the land-locked Central Asian state overtaken by peers like Kazakhstan.
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