For long-time watchers of central and eastern Europe, the opening up of Uzbekistan has been one of the biggest and most welcome surprises of the last three years.
As the largest market in central Asia, with a rapidly growing population of 32 million and a wealth of natural resources, the country has always been on investors’ radar. Under the 25-year rule of former president Islam Karimov, however, and particularly in the decade before his death in September 2016, it was largely off limits to outsiders.
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