... only country in post-soviet Central Asia with which U.S. can deal is Uzbekistan. The reasoning behind this is clear for any Central Asia observer - Uzbekistan left CSTO, doesn’t have any plans in joining Customs Union and tries to dominate regional competition. Other countries in the region are ruled out by the the very same parameters but with a different modulus sign. Russia is dealing with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, providing the two latter with aid and debt forgiveness. At the same time Russia is conducting ...
... becomes a successor, a situation may turn out differently. However, this scenario is the easiest in terms of responsibility - you don’t need to worry about your future after resignation. In fact, you don’t need to worry about anything.
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
Niyazov’s case created a precedent in Central Asia, after 2006 media and political analysts started to see a possibility of the same scenario in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Nowadays, media in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan sometimes publish articles on prospective successors, trying to guess, who ...
Banking Risks in Central Asia
The widely discussed post-crisis settlement in the financial sector, the European sovereign debt situation and ... ... financial issues, while the new Grand Game in Asia is attracting attention from all over. A relatively mature banking sector in Kazakhstan, attempts to overcome uncertainty in Kyrgyzstan and isolationism in Turkmenistan, the obvious dependence of credit institutions in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan on administrative interference – these are part of the diverse set of characteristics that inevitably undermine ...
... Soviet period the idea of “administrative” borders emerged in the region, but only after facing the independence Central Asian countries finally met “borders” as one of the parameters which define the State.
Today there is a big ... ... whole region - delimitation and demarcation is still unfinished. The only state that finished this process is Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan still has some arguable areas, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan have a lot of borders section to discuss - mainly in Ferghana Valley. Additionally, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan ...
