Media: President of Uzbekistan Karimov died

The President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, died after a stroke. Such information is transmitted with reference to unnamed sources of Ferghana.ru. According to the publication, death occurred on Monday at 15:35 on Tashkent (13:35 Moscow time).

Official sources, however, do not report the death of the president.

The hospitalization of 78-year-old Karimov became known on Sunday . As the Cabinet of Council of the country reported, the head of state needs a "complete medical examination and subsequent treatment", which "will require a certain time."

Officials did not specify the reason for hospitalization. Meanwhile, Ferghana.ru already reported that on the night of August 27, the president suffered a stroke. The publication also wrote about unprecedented security measures adopted in the village of Durmen near Tashkent, where the Karimov residence is located. It was claimed that the residence is cordoned off by the triple cordon of the police and special services.

On Monday, the youngest daughter of President Lola Karimov-Tyllyaeva confirmed that her father had a stroke . Unlike Ferghana.ru, however, she called the stroke time not night, but morning on August 27.

The patient is in intensive care, added Karimova-Tyllyaeva. She described her father’s condition as stable, but noticed that there are premature forecasts about the outcome of the disease.

Meanwhile, the opposition folk movement of Uzbekistan, headed by the emigrant poet Muhammad Salikh, reported on Sunday with reference to sources in the country's government that Karimov’s stroke happened after the banquet in honor of the victory of the Uzbek athletes at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. “Islam Karimov, who was glad of the victory of our athletes, began to excessively drink vodka and other alcohol,” the party quoted the words of officials in her publication. It was claimed that Karimov drank alcohol, ignoring the warnings of the head of his administration Zelimkhan Khaidarov.

The banquet, held on Friday, lasted from 20 hours to about 22: 30-23: 00. At about 0: 00-0: 30 Saturdays, Karimov, who talked with Khaidarov, suddenly lost consciousness and fell.

At the same time, the folk movement of Uzbekistan claimed that on Saturday the president was returned from the hospital to Durmen, where German and Israeli doctors arrived in the evening of the same day.

It was also reported that this is the second stroke of Karimov. The first, as said in the publication, he transferred in 2013.

In the Soviet years, Karimov was a major functionary of the Communist Party of the Uzbek SSR and an official. In 1983-1986, he served as Minister of Finance, a short time in 1986 was the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers and the chairman of the State Planning Commission of Uzbekistan, then until 1989-the first secretary of the Kashkadarya regional party committee.

In 1989, Karimov became the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (held a post until September 1991), and in 1990-also the President of the Uzbek SSR. Since the end of 1991, the permanent president of independent Uzbekistan. Installed one of the toughest in the modern world of dictatorships.