Tokyo's stock index fell to a record 9 percent, with some cases dropping as much as 13 percent, amid reports of a rise in the U.S. unemployment rate. This is the biggest drop since Black Monday in 1987.

Today's revival of Islam on a global scale is also felt in Uzbekistan. On the one hand, foreign powers, and on the other hand, the domestic political elite, each of them, based on their own interests, is trying to assess the possibility that the development of Islam, or, in scientific terms, the "increasing of the religious background" will ensure the country's stability or, on the contrary, lead to a political crisis.