Central Asia is an area that does not get much attention basically by anyone. So I'm creating a thread fir you to list and discuss Central Asian PoDs after 1991 and the collapse of the USSR. Central Asia will be defined as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. Then we can discuss Central Asian alternate history. A starting PoD is:
Islam Karimov assassinated in 1999