Shavkat Mirziyoyev

Shavkat Mirziyoyev

Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev (born 24 July 1957) is an Uzbek politician who has served as President of Uzbekistan and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Uzbekistan since 14 December 2016. Previously, Mirziyoyev led the government as a Prime Minister of Uzbekistan from 2003 to 2016.Mirziyoyev's political career originally began after joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, where he was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR in 1990. From mid-1990s, he headed several regions of Jizzakh and Samarqand as a governor (hakim) before his appointment as the head of government by then-President Islam Karimov.Following the death of President Karimov, Mirziyoyev was appointed by the Oliy Majlis as acting president of Uzbekistan on 8 September 2016. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shavkat Mirziyoyev has received more than 1,303,670 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Shavkat Mirziyoyev is the 2,036th most popular politician (up from 2,961st in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Uzbekistan (up from 13th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Uzbekistani Politician.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev was elected president of Uzbekistan in December 2016, succeeding Islam Karimov. Mirziyoyev was the Prime Minister of Uzbekistan from 2003 to 2016. He was also the Chairman of the Uzbekistan Soviet Socialist Republic from 1989 to 1991.