Islam Karimov
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Islam Abduganievitj Karimov (30 January 1938 – 2 September 2016) was the first President of Uzbekistan from 1990 to 2016.
On 29 August 2016 he was reported to be in intensive care, after suffering a stroke.[1]
It was announced that Karimov died on 2 September 2016.[2] The government confirmed the news later that day.[2]
Islam Karimov Media
Islam Karimov statue adjacent to Registon Square and Mausoleum.
Karimov with Dr. Manmohan Singh in New Delhi, August 1991
Askar Akayev, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Saparmurat Niyazov and Karimov during the CIS meeting c. 1992
President Islam Karimov with voters in Tashkent, 1999
President Putin with President Karimov at Durmen, the presidential residence in Tashkent, 2000
Karimov meets with Donald H. Rumsfeld in the Pentagon on March 13, 2002
Karimov on a postage stamp from 2006
Karimov and Dmitry Medvedev at a CIS Summit in 2008
Lee Myung-bak Karimov held a Korea-Uzbekistan Summit in Seoul, February 2010
Uzbek President with Latvian politician Valdis Dombrovskis in 2013
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Bibliography
- Bohr, Annette Uzbekistan: Politics and Foreign Policy London: Royal Institute of International Affairs (1998) ISBN 1-86203-081-2
- Schatz, Edward (2006). "Access by Accident: Legitimacy Claims and Democracy Promotion in Authoritarian Central Asia". International Political Science Review. 27 (3): 263–284. doi:10.1177/0192512106064463. JSTOR 20445055. S2CID 145546950.
References
- ↑ "President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan Suffers Brain Hemorrhage, Daughter Says". The New York Times. 29 August 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/world/asia/uzbekistan-president-islam-karimov.html. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Islam Karimov: Uzbekistan president's death confirmed". BBC. 2016-09-02. Retrieved 2016-09-02.