ABSTRACT
The newly independent republics of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, formed after the dissolution of the Soviet empire, have suddenly become ranking members of the world community, negotiating political and economic relations with other nations. Although the plants of the military-industrial complex that are situated in the territory of the newly created independent republics formally belong to the republics, it is difficult to exclude them from the structure of the military-industrial complex. The youth, concentrated around Wahhabi mosques that were subordinate at that time to the Spiritual Administration and led by Abdul-Ahad, the imam of the Gumbaz mosque in Namangan, stood up to reject active political fighting and showed their support for the government in its efforts to solve the problems of social, economic, and cultural development in independent Uzbekistan. As deputies of the Supreme Soviet and the soviets of other levels, they are correspondingly involved as leaders of the Spiritual Administration in lawmaking activity.
