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Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a sovereign, doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia. It is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan
Female statuette wearing the kaunakes. Chlorite and limestone, Bactria, beginning of the second millennium BC.
Triumphant crowd at Registan, Sher-Dor Madrasah. The Emir of Bukhara viewing the severed heads of Russian soldiers on poles. Painting by Vasily Vereshchagin (1872).
Two Sart men and two Sart boys in Samarkand, c. 1910
Russian troops taking Samarkand in 1868, by Nikolay Karazin
Shavkat Mirziyoyev
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Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev is an Uzbek Politician who has served as the second president of Uzbekistan since 2016. A member of the Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party, he served as the third prim
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…While NGOs have defined Uzbekistan as "an authoritarian state with limited civil rights", significant reforms under Uzbekistan's second President, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, have been made following the death of the first president, Islam Karimov. Owing to these reforms, relations with neighbours Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and…
Official portrait, 2018
Mirziyoyev shakes hands with Nursultan Nazarbayev at the 2017 SCO summit in Kazakhstan
Mirziyoyev with Vladimir Putin in October 2018
Mirziyoyev with members of the Uzbek American diaspora in New York City in May 2018