Uzbek security service will be succession kingmaker
The much-feared SNB is Uzbekistan's most powerful security body and will be key for the post-Karimov succession
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- Role and powers
- Political policing
- Espionage and murder
- Eyes and ears
- Security forces
- Control of security apparatus
- Influence on politics
- Influence on business
- Crime
- Prospects
- Karimov's options
- Internal SNB challenge
- Russian intervention
- Islamic State group
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_350.jpg "President Islam Karimov in Moscow (Reuters/Grigory Dukor)")