Who Could Replace Uzbekistan’s Ailing President?
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Uzbekistan is on edge after learning that Uzbek President Islam Karimov has been hospitalized after suffering what his younger daughter says was a cerebral hemorrhage. Who would, or could, replace the only leader the country has had since it became independent in the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991?