Uzbekistan's new president may not be a game-changer for one of the world's most repressive societies

Anvar Ilyasov/Reuters For more than three years, Saodat Mananova, a 63-year-old schoolteacher from ex-Soviet Uzbekistan, could not get her late husband's savings from a state-run bank. The sum was modest, $1,400, the will was in her name, but bank officials kept coming up with new documents she had to submit, or invented excuses to delay the payment, the frail, gray-haired woman said. The situation was typical for Uzbekistan, which ranked 153 on the list of 168 nations in the 2015 Corruption Per...