Photo Gallery Spiders in a Jar
Germany's closest ally in Central Asia is a brutal dictator. Islam Karimov has ruled Uzbekistan with an iron fist for a quarter-century. Now, Shakespearean plotting within his own family is raising questions about who will succeed the 77-year-old leader.
Uzbek regime opponent Vyacheslav Okhunov, his country's most famous artist, accuses leader Islam Karimov of being a "dicator" who "tyrannizes us all with his Mafioso clique."
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Uzbek President Islam Karimov, 77, has led the country with an iron fist for a quarter-century. He got re-elected for another term last week.
Foto: Sergei Chirikov/ picture alliance / dpa
Previously, it was widely believed that his glamourous daughter Gulnara Karimova, 42, and seen here at a Christian Dior fashion show in Paris in 2013, would succeed him. But she is currently the subject of a corruption investigation that has resulted in her house arrest since fall and estrangement from her father.
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