Development Assistance As Leverage for Russia’s Footprint in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

... the “donor club” — the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) or we take into consideration the actual assistance, including forms of assistance going beyond the traditional limits. If assessed by the criteria of “Official Development Assistance”, Russia’s IDA in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan would look not very convincing in comparison with other donors’ activities. For instance, from 2002 until 2011 Russia had allocated to Tajikistan under the ODA program some 13.543 thousand US dollars, or 0.8 percent of the total donor ...