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Afghan challenges in Central Asia As they become more involved in the complex process of geopolitical balancing, the post-Soviet states of Central Asia are trying to shrink away from orienting on a single global or regional center in order to maintain smooth relations with ...
... The Silk Road through the prism of the Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS. RIAC Program Manager Helena Alekseyenkova spoke on common interests of Russia and China in the economic development, stability and security of Central Asia – the region to be perceived by the concept as a co-development area rather than a transit territory. To this end, the EEU and Great Silk Road seem hardly conflicting, since the former is aimed at institutional and juridical association ...
For much of the post-Soviet period, Central Asia has been a backwater of Russian foreign policy. But things are changing. Circumstances in and beyond the region are driving a more committed approach in Moscow. Central Asia is critical to Putin’s aim of establishing Russia as the leading ...
On December 17, 2014, Bishkek was the venue of a working meeting for staffers and experts of RIAC and Kyrgyz National Institute for Strategic Studies on a future joint migration project. Russia is hosting about 500,000 Kyrgyz immigrants with Russian citizenship and about the same number of Kyrgyz citizens, with quite a lot of migration issues on the agenda, among them the impact of Bishkek's presence in the Customs Union and Eurasian Economic Union, as well as and economic calamity in Russia. Representatives...
Russia and Iran in the region: allies or rivals? Iran occupies an important place in Central Asia’s system of political and economic relations. It may not boast impressive resources such as those of Central Asian countries’ leading partners (China, Russia, the EU), and faces substantial political restraints due to the current ...
Let us consider Central Asia. There are currently three primary concerns in the region as of 2014: drug trafficking, Islamist terrorism, and poverty. The three problems are, of course, inextricable -- the first funds the second, and the third inspires the former two....
On June 20, 2014, RIAC and UNDP held a roundtable "Current Problems of Central Asia Development", with the UNDP represented by UN Resident Coordinators/UNDP Resident Representatives in Central Asia and Azerbaijan, their deputies, and officers of the UNDP Regional Bureau in Europe and Central Asia. The RIAC representatives ...
On June 17, 2014, RIAC held an invitations-only roundtable on Central Asia in view of the Western coalition withdrawal from Afghanistan and prospects for Russia-U.S. cooperation in the region. The participants focused on the situation in Afghanistan, key security risks related to the U.S. and NATO troops withdrawal,...
Russia's Role Central Asia today incorporates five countries: Kazakhstan and former Soviet Central Asian republics. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, these countries went through their own individual transformations, leading to a highly diversified socio-economic ...
... formats and on other international platforms. No matter how powerful the organization is, Tashkent's withdrawal has aggravated the regional security environment, including its role in Afghanistan. It is hard for me to imagine a CRRF security umbrella in Central Asia without the participation of such a significant country as Uzbekistan. The question is still open, although one point is crystal clear. The CSTO is resilient enough to resist any sort of attempts to shut it down. It has evolved and grown ...
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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