Repressive central Asian regime recalls Soviet era by outlawing what it calls ‘western pseudo-science’From a political scientist’s perspective,Uzbekistan is almost certainly an authoritarian government: the regime of President Islam Karimov, who has ruled the country since before the breakup of the Soviet Union, and has imprisoned critics,held sham elections and each year forces millions of people to pick cotton for the state.
It therefore came as little surprise final week when the government banned the teaching of political science, on the grounds that it is a western pseudo-science that does not engage the “Uzbek model” of development into account.
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Source: theguardian.com