Electoral type events

[Famous Mortimer]

Wonder what happened to the Self-Sacrificers Party. They were the president's favorite party for a while before they got replaced by the Liberal Democrats. Still, didn't expect them to disappear entirely, the People's Democratic Party (former Communist) are still around, even though Karimov abandoned them around 2000.

[Famous Mortimer]

Is Islam Karimov the most loathsome specimen in the CIS?

He put his own daughter under house arrest.

She deserves it.

[Famous Mortimer]

People's Congress it the party of Hassan al-Turabi, who spearheaded the movement for Islamic law before it was fashionable. He was also largely responsible for bringing Osama bin Laden into the country.

In recent years though, especially since the government launched its various genocidal campaigns against dark skinned people, he has revamped himself as a defended of those dark skinned people. As well as a surprising moderate on issues of Islamic jurisprudence. He has come out against the death penalty for apostasy and in favor of Muslim women being able to marry non-Muslims.

Of course, a lot of this also has to do with his deteriorating relations with al-Bashir.

The main Umma Party is led by former PM Sadiq al-Mahdi, who as him name suggests, is the descendant of an anti-British rebel leader who claimed to be the Islamic messiah.

[Famous Mortimer]

Lukashenko is still pro-Russia, he just tries not to act like a total poodle. Remember that people used to say Yanukovych was turning against Russia at one point.