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GENERAL OVERVIEW
Mukhabat KHAMRAEVA
Mukhabat Khamraeva, Representative of
Central Asia and the Caucasus in Uzbekistan (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
In his New Year’s Address, Uzbek President Islam Karimov noted that 2004 had been a difficult year: “We had to live through the anxious days of 29-30 March and 31 July, when international terrorism and the bandits who violated our border showed their bestial faces once more and took the lives of innocent people.”
But one of the most difficult periods in the most recent history of Uzbekistan was probably 2005, although its outcome was quite optimistic in essentially all areas of the republic’s life, primarily in the economic and political spheres. As the official documents note, real personal incomes rose by almost 22%, and monthly salaries, pensions, stipends, and benefits rose by an average of 40%. On 1 January, a law on the accumulative pension system came into force. Great hopes were placed on it, but they were far from fully justified.
Another special feature of the socioeconomic sphere was the decrease in the profit tax rate for enterprises from 18% to 15%, in the single social payment from the wages fund from 33% to 31%, and in the marginal income tax rate for citizens from 30% to 29%.
Serious changes occurred in the country’s political life. At the end of 2004-beginning of 2005, elections were held to the new, bi-chamber parliament. One hundred and twenty deputies were elected to its lower, legislative, chamber. According to the Central Election Commission, these deputies constituted lawyers, 18.3%, economists, 21.7%, industrial, construction, and…………….
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