At least 18 people were killed and 243 injured last week during mass protests.
The Kremlin called yesterday Monday the many dead episodes in the Karakalpakstan region of Uzbekistan “internal case” that concerns Tashkent only.
Speaking to journalists, Mr representative of the presidency of Russia, Dmitry Peskov, he said that Moscow considers Uzbekistan a “friendly country” and added that he had no doubt that President Zafkat Mirziyoyev’s government would work to resolve the issue.
At least eighteen people were killed and 243 others were injured in last week’s riots in the impoverished region (officially, an autonomous “republic”) of northwestern Uzbekistan, following mass protests against a plan to revise the Constitution that notably saw the region of 2 million people lose “sovereign” status and the right to organize a referendum on its self-determination.
The Uzbek authorities, who declared a state of emergency until August in Karakalpakstan, were forced to announce after the incidents that the articles of the Constitution concerning it would remain in place.
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