The Andijan Tragedy 21 Years Later. Unanswered Questions and Legacy.

More than twenty years later, the Andijan events in Uzbekistan continue to shadow current developments in the country and the Central Asian region. The protests in Uzbekistan's east that followed the trial of local businessmen were violently dispersed and unknown number of people were killed. The events that happened in May 2005 were the first of violence of that scale in the post-Soviet territory -- long before the deadly events in Almaty in January 2022 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine launched weeks after that. We look at the Andijan protest's dispersal as at a turning point in the history of the post-Soviet space and try to evaluate the tragic events' legacy.