Lonely grandparents watch videos of small children reciting slogans in Arabic. This is a slice of life in Kazakhstan's militant "hot spot," Zhezkazgan.
Uzbek social media was set ablaze when a new Twitter account earlier this month began publishing a stream of posts that seemed to have been authored by Gulnara Karimova, the estranged daughter of the late Uzbek President Islam Karimov, who has not been seen in public for more than two years.
In Uzbekistan, the zero hour has finally come. For the first time in 25 years of independence, Uzbeks awake to a country not ruled by Islam Karimov. The new era has suddenly arrived, but what will change?
