New Challenges and Tashkent’s Policy

Abstract

In this year Uzbekistan, which is dynamically developing not only thanks to economic reforms, the activation of foreign policy, but also in connection with the achievement of social balance, has faced a new serious challenge. The proposals to amend the Constitution, which provided for the deprivation of Karakalpakstan of its status as a sovereign republic, became a trigger for mass protest movements. The participation of external forces in the events in Nukus indicated a possible increase in the trend towards destabilization in Uzbekistan. Against this background, the republic’s relations with the Eurasian integration structures, primarily with the EAEU, are developing.