Uzbekistan votes, to extend leader's reign to over three decades

People look at election posters of presidental candidates in Tashkent March 26, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

ALMATY (Reuters) - Uzbekistan on Sunday voted in a presidential election, in which veteran leader Islam Karimov runs virtually unopposed to extend his autocratic reign to more than three decades.

Critics say the regime Karimov installed in his mainly Muslim nation of 30 million, Central Asia's most populous, is among the most repressive in the world. At 77, he is the oldest of the presidents of the former Soviet nations.