Outdoing even Russia, the authoritarian Central Asian country of Uzbekistan seem to have no problem ignoring its constitution when it comes to keeping the top boss in office: two-time president Islam Karimov, who has had both his terms in office extended by referendums already, has been cleared by the Central Electoral Commission to run for a third term, despite the small matter of a constitutional limit of two terms. Although there are three other candidates running for the office – all of whom are regarded as Karimov loyalists – our money’s definitely on Karimov. He won his last election with 92 percent of the vote. For those of you who thought that the Kremlin was the first to invent false opposition parties, think again.