Islam Karimov
Politician
1938 –
Who is Islam Karimov?
Islom Abdug‘aniyevich Karimov is the first President of Uzbekistan, ruling since 1989.
Karimov was placed in an orphanage in Samarkand at birth, grew up to study economics and engineering at school. He became an official in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, becoming the party's First Secretary in Uzbekistan in 1989. On March 24, 1990 he became President of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Karimov's election to the Uzbek Communist Party resulted after his predecessor Rafik Nishanov failed to quell inter-ethnic clashes and instability in the Fergana region. He declared Uzbekistan an independent nation on August 31, 1991 and subsequently won Uzbekistan's first presidential election on December 29, 1991, with 86% of the vote. The election was called unfair, with state-run propaganda and a falsified vote count, although the opposing candidate and leader of the Erk Party, Muhammad Salih, had a chance to participate. Karimov permitted the participation of the opposition organizations Birlik and the Islamic Renaissance Party until his efforts to consolidate power over Shukrullo Mirsaidov, a former Communist Party elite who had originally supported Karimov's rise to the Party presidency. The period of political thaw was brief; Karimov began to complicate the registration process of opposition parties during elections. As Birlik grew in strength as a "popular movement", it was denied the ability to register as a "political party" without the required 60,000 signatures. The Karimov government allowed Birlik one day to gather these signatures, 25,000 of which they rejected. Karimov effectively took authoritarian measures to block any meaningful opposition.
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- Born
- Jan 30, 1938
Samarkand - Also known as
- Islom Karimov
- Islam Abdug‘aniyevich Karimov
- Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov
- Ислом Абдуғаниевич Каримов
- Ислам Абдуганиевич Каримов
- I. A. Karimov
- Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Islam
- Atheism
- Ethnicity
- Uzbeks
- Nationality
- Uzbekistan
- Profession
- Education
- Tashkent State Economic University
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on July 23, 2013
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