About Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia. Since its independence in 1991, Uzbekistan has been implementing reform policies to move away from the inherited structures of the former Soviet Union. Dismantling the systems, structures and mentality accumulated during 70 years has been an enormous challenge.
During the years of independence, while creating a new nation, Uzbekistan had to re-invent itself economically, having lost the traditional trade links of the Soviet states and the subsidies from Moscow. Due to the unavoidable turmoil of transition, some of the human development indicators fell during the early years on independence. However, Uzbekistan succeeded in maintaining the main indicators at acceptable rates, as compared to most CIS countries.
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