... 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 members of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation ...
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Diversified risks have emerged in Central Asia: from terrorism and extremism to energy security and drug trafficking. For instance, internal fractures could easily become potential conflict drivers. So far, within the Fergana Valley, especially in southern Kyrgyzstan, ethnic divisions have twice turned into real violence. Lately, the number of ethnic Russians in Central Asia has been decreasing, but Russia is still eager to protect its compatriots abroad. The region is also home to a number of exclaves and autonomous regions, representing another potential cause for disorder. Other possible factors can be found ...
... influence of pseudo-educational groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir (which does not formally pursue military action but is included in the lists of terrorist organisations maintained by the security services of key global states).
Federica Prandin:
The EU and Russia in Central Asia: Is There Any Room for Cooperation?
A new trend has emerged in recent years with Jihadist groups forced out from Kyrgyzstan starting to exert an influence on Salafi jamaats in the country. Once in prison, members of these organisations are sometimes reported to convert their cellmates into loyal supporters in a short time.
The latest terrorist operation was the ...
The Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations’ Report
Central Asia stands out as a comparatively “nontoxic” region where there are limited, but not insignificant, opportunities for U.S.-Russia collaboration both bilaterally and within multilateral frameworks: in the space industry, civil security, job-creation ...
... politics. The ongoing Ukraine crisis and Russia's involvement pose the main factor scaring other countries off from joining Russia within any structure. Despite participation in many integration unions, countries in Central Asia including Tajikistan prefer bilateral cooperation with the Kremlin.
5. The EEU is due to reach full force by 2025. What is your vision of the group in 10 years’ time?
Flickr / Eric Lafforgue
Kyrgyzstan Experts’ Polemic: “Kyrgyzstan and
the EEU: Better In than Out”
SO
: The EEU’s viability for ...
... positive effect on the interactions of Central Asian countries with organizations in which Russia plays the key role.
Chinara Esengul
:
The current but not very constructive relations between Russia and the West do have an effect on the relations of the Central Asian republics, in particular Kyrgyzstan, with Russia and the West. But the European Union and the United States have always placed an emphasis on the importance of pursuing an independent course by the countries in our region. Therefore, our relationship can develop in a constructive way with the ...
... particularly vulnerable due to the presence of the Russian military contingent on their territory: the largest Russian military facilities abroad are the 201st Motor Rifle Division (base) deployed in Tajikistan (about 7500 people) and the Kant airbase in Kyrgyzstan.
The position of the Russian language and of the minorities in the Central Asian republics is a separate aspect of the problem. Russian policy in the post-Soviet space, which after 2008 has increasingly promoted the issue of protecting compatriots “
wherever they may be
”, cannot but fuel phobias and speculation,...
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 ...
There are three legislative mechanisms of water resources regulation in Central Asia. First, there is an international law - documents made by Interstate Commission ... ... projects of new hydropower plants (HPP’s) in Rogun (Tajikistan) and Kambarata (Kyrgyzstan) and how those projects may affect the downstream countries, mainly Uzbekistan... ... extent this expertise is biased. However, the Kambarata-1 project will be reexamined as Russia and Uzbekistan agreed on this in 2012[6].
Kambarata project seems more credible...
... a new revolution; protestants in Jalalabad are erecting tents on the central square of the city. What are the key reasons of Kyrgyzstan’s stable instability?
The question of “why Kyrgyzstan can not stabilize it’s political system?” ... ... thesis where this pattern was described as a “stabilizing system through revolution”, in 2011 Dmitriy Furman, famous russian scholar published a paper “Kirghiz Cycles” where he describes the same idea and the same regularity: democratic ...
