The time has come for SCO member states to bring this body out to the light and to rise up to a new, post-US Afghan challenge
The US is withdrawing from Afghanistan. Twenty years of the US-led foreign intervention has brought neither prosperity, nor stability, to the country. With hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the seemingly endless military operations and with thousands of Americans killed,...
On June 10, 2021, Said T. Jawad, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Russia, and Navid Fayz, Trade and Economic Counselor at the Afghan Embassy in Moscow, visited RIAC
On June 10, 2021, Said T. Jawad, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Russia, and Navid Fayz, Trade and Economic Counselor at the Afghan Embassy ...
... regional states and interaction with China, which is no less interested in its internal stability than Moscow.
The recent armed border clashes between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as the extremely uncertain prospects for the central government in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of the US and its allies, have forced us to re-examine the question of the extent of Russia’s responsibility for what is happening in Central Asia. Most of the countries in the region are formal allies of Russia, as ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has appreciated the role of Pakistan in the peace process of Afghanistan
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has appreciated the role of Pakistan in the peace process of Afghanistan. He said that Russia expects that the meeting of the extended ‘Troika’ on March 18, 2021 will give a necessary impetus to ...
... Decade
After the Soviet collapse, Russia has been involved in the Central Asian political disorder first-hand. During the 1990s, a violent civil war struck Tajikistan, while the beginning of the new century started with the US military intervention in Afghanistan. Later on, new ethnic tensions mounted in the Fergana Valley, two revolutions erupted in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan was shocked by the Andjan massacre and by the rise of the Islamic Movement.
A series of issues concerning Russia’s economic stability ...
... effectively captured Russia's persistent drug problem since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Accounting for one-fifth of the world’s opium market estimated at USD 65 billion, Russia is the world’s largest heroin consumer, all of it flowing from Afghanistan through Central Asia.
The Afghan drug trade supplying the Russian market has fuelled conflict, corruption, and instability in the region, provided financial support to terrorist organisations and led to a devastating addiction and HIV epidemic ...
The long-term impasse that persists in Afghanistan has lead to nostalgia in the country for a "strong hand" that would instantly resolve all problems. However, such assumptions are illusory
The unexpected COVID-19 pandemic, which for a time occupied the minds of the world's political ...
... United States’ foreign and military policies. Let us recall, for example, the South Asian concept (the so-called AfPac) put forward by Barack Obama during a speech at West Point in 2008. The primary objective of AfPac was to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan in a phased and painless manner (to the extent that this was possible) while at the same time partially shifting the focus of U.S. policy in the region to resolving the longstanding conflict between the central authorities in Kabul and the ...
... down, look no further than the Middle East.
Akop Gabrielyan:
Goodbye, U.S. Foreign Policy?
Within the aforementioned omnibus bill, $4.2 billion is appropriated for the Afghan Security Forces Fund. That’s correct. The U.S. is sending $4.2 billion to Afghanistan to continue its seemingly endless endeavor in the Middle East. In recent years, there have been
serious concerns
regarding U.S. foreign aid to Afghanistan. Furthermore, this news is shocking bearing in mind the release of the
Afghanistan ...
Technology and innovation can be a gateway for the U.S. and Russia to work together and build trust without compromising their core values
Security Outlook for a Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAPI) and U.S. Involvement
To identify innovative solutions for securing the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAPI) from threats and attacks, participating agencies must put together a concerted effort, relying on both physical security ...