Uzbek TV Figure Reads Independence Speech for Ill President
MOSCOW — A national newsreader has delivered a televised Independence Day speech on behalf of ailing President Islam Karimov, who remains hospitalized in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, with a suspected brain hemorrhage.The surprise substitution reflected rising political uncertainty in Uzbekistan, which observed its national holiday Thursday. It was Karimov's first-ever absence from the celebrations.Karimov has run an authoritarian regime in the Central Asian nation since 1989, suppressing opp..>> view originalJunior doctor row: A step into the unknown
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Thursday, September 8, 2016
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