Şevket Mirziyoyev

Uzbekistan Scales Back Nuclear Cooperation With Russia

Back on June 4, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Russian leader Vladimir Putin were all smiles amid the ceremonial groundbreaking for the construction of Uzbekistan’s first cluster of nuclear reactors, to be built by Russia’s nuclear entity Rosatom. “I am confident that you have chosen the best option for Uzbekistan out of all those offered,” Putin told Mirziyoyev at the time. Just three months later, it is clear that Mirziyoyev is having second thoughts about his selection of Rosatom. On September 2, his presidential…