# Shavkat Mirziyoyev

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Timur Trump Sets Out To Reconquer the Heartland. Really?

So history ruled that no conqueror coming from the West would traverse the Pamirs; that happened with Alexander the Great, and that happened with Islam. But that may well happen with Timur Trump, Conqueror of China. President Donald Trump did not disappoint when defining centuries of complex Heart…

Episode 26: The limits of change in the "New Uzbekistan"

This week is about change - and the lack thereof. We will be looking at Uzbekistan: how the country was shaped during the post-Soviet period under the regime of Islam Karimov, and what has changed since Shavkat Mirziyoyev came to power. How different is the “New Uzbekistan” from the Karimov era? Jo…

Joanna Lillis, "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

In September 2016, Islam Karimov–the first president of a post-Soviet Uzbekistan–died, at age 78. His death ended an oppressive dictatorship that had governed the Central Asian country for decades, which led to corruption, environmental damage, and political repression. Karimov was replaced with Sh…

Joanna Lillis, "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

In September 2016, Islam Karimov–the first president of a post-Soviet Uzbekistan–died, at age 78. His death ended an oppressive dictatorship that had governed the Central Asian country for decades, which led to corruption, environmental damage, and political repression. Karimov was replaced with Sh…

Joanna Lillis, "Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

In September 2016, Islam Karimov–the first president of a post-Soviet Uzbekistan–died, at age 78. His death ended an oppressive dictatorship that had governed the Central Asian country for decades, which led to corruption, environmental damage, and political repression. Karimov was replaced with Sh…

Silk Mirage: Joanna Lillis on Uzbekistan’s unfinished transition

This week’s episode of the CAPS Unlock podcast departs from the usual format for a single in-depth conversation with journalist Joanna Lillis, whose new book Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan draws on more than two decades of reporting to examine the country’s evolution since ind…

Kazakhstan’s AI future has a language problem

This week on the CAPS Unlock podcast, we begin in Kazakhstan, where a new political party has appeared just ahead of parliamentary elections expected later this year. The party is called Adilet, meaning “justice,” and its sudden emergence has already raised familiar questions about how political co…

Libre News of The World. Thursday the 25th of June 2026.

Subscribe today so you never miss an episode! Today on Libre News of The World, we reported on UK schools, hospitals and transport networks struggling under extreme heat (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/23/searing-uk-heat-leaves-schools-hospitals-and-transport-networks-struggling-t…

Election Engineering, Afghan Attacks, and Mirziyoyev's Ten-Year Transformation

This week, we're covering one of Central Asia's leaders openly calling on Vladimir Putin to bring the war in Ukraine to an end, Russia moving to tear up a number of its military agreements with two Central Asian states, upcoming elections in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, a deepening crackdown on oppos…