Uzbekistan’s feuding first family and the mystery of the president’s missing daughter
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/16/uzbekistan-feuding-first-family-mystery-president-missing-gulnara-karim
Gulnara Karimova, once the favoured daughter and presumed successor to her father’s autocratic mantle, told the Guardian in December that her sister and mother were engaged in a plot to turn her father against her. In February, her Twitter account, an extraordinary – if at times only semi-coherent – peephole into what was really happening at the centre of power and inside her troubled family, vanished.
And Karimova, who was once everywhere in Uzbekistan, recording pop songs, appearing at fashion events with western celebrities and even launching her own jewellery line, completely disappeared.
