Tajikistan is led by brutal dictatorship that has just staged stolen Tajik election for leadership

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Tajik strongman wins over 83% in ‘no choice’ poll

AFP – Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon on Thursday secured a fourth term at the helm of the poorest state in the former Soviet Union after crushing his also-ran opponents in polls damned by the OSCE as lacking any real choice. Rakhmon won 83.6 percent.

King Lear on the Silk Road? In Uzbekistan, a daughter’s antics challenge her dictator father

The Christian Science Monitor

Uzbek President Islam Karimov gestures during a news conference in Tashkent in 2005. Karimov, a former Communist Party boss who has led Uzbekistan since the 1991 Soviet collapse is one of the most repressive leaders of former Soviet Union countries.