By Muzaffar Ismailov inTashkent bne intellinews’ annual Outlook series of reports looks ahead to what 2023 holds for the countries in our news regions. Below is an introduction. Read the full report on Uzbekistan here (Flipbuilder) or in PDF (see links at foot of this article). The past year has seen Uzbekistan, in common with the rest of Central Asia, braced for economic impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Western sanctions imposed on the Russian economy as a result of the Kremlin’s choice to wage war. The effects have yet to register on anything like a critical scale in the re…