... protection of human rights. Also, the European Endowment for Democracy is stepping up its activity in the region. The EU intends to link “pragmatically” the issues of economic assistance and humanitarian cooperation with the political changes in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. According to European experts, the
Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the EU and Kazakhstan
signed on December 21, 2015, also serves the aim to support democratic transition in Kazakhstan and promotes significant advancement ...
... signaled a shift in the direction of American policy in Central Asia, reflecting some critical economic, political and security developments in the area. The June 9th speech comes after an unprecedented five-country tour of Central Asia-- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan-- by Secretary of State Kerry last November.
In the same address to the House Foreign Affairs Committee last year, Rosenblum detailed the usual multifold approach to Central Asia— the promotion of state ...
... 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 Tajikistan will depend on Russia's success materializing its integration potential, especially given the deteriorating geopolitical environment and Western sanctions against Russia. However, those same sanctions may energize EEU-wide cooperation, triggering ...
... alter the interpretation of events related to that period.
Third, reviving the memory of the Great Patriotic War is an important foreign policy element, primarily vis-à-vis Russia. With good reason, states close to Russia such as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan celebrate Victory Day in a manner close to Russian both in content (military parade) and semantics (terminology, etc.). Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have renamed the celebration the Day of Remembrance and Mourning, while Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan ...
... understand Russia’s reasoning on the Crimean issue, the political elites in the region have highlighted the problem of military-political security and humanitarian aspects related to the Russian language and Russian minorities. In line with this logic, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan feel 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 ...
... situation and the Cypriot banking crisis have experts of all kinds riveted to 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 the strategic initiatives of Russian banks, driving them to clusterization in capital and caution. Are there ...
... We heard much on ambitious projects of new hydropower plants (HPP’s) in Rogun (Tajikistan) and Kambarata (Kyrgyzstan) and how those projects may affect the downstream countries, mainly Uzbekistan, as his concern is most vocal. The logic behind Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan desire to build huge HPP’s is simple - this countries lack energy resources to make electricity and deliver it to their own people. The Soviet system of redistribution and cooperation, the concept very popular in so called “economic ...
... определения границ на спорных участках” http://www.vb.kg/doc/212935_v_treh_stranah_ca_vybiraut_karty_dlia_opredeleniia_granic_na_sp0rnoyh_ychastkah.html
BOMCA web-site http://www.bomca.eu/en/home.html
[v] Alisher Khamidov “Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan: Clashes on Volatile Border Growing Vicious” April 20, 2011 - 10:57am, Eurasianet.org http://www.eurasianet.org/node/63336
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22
-
2005
523
244
640
82
2006
156
158
163
9
2007
72
42
67
13
2008
635
88
242
31
2009
506
29
273
20
2010
299
134
411
12
2011
296
31
90
5
TOTAL
3,031
741
2,287
172
Bolashak program official data,
http://www.edu-cip.kz
Certainly, people in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan view Russia more positively than people in other countries in the region. According to the Eurasian Integration Barometer, a survey of the Eurasian Development Bank, public approval of projects aiming to expand cooperation with Moscow (primarily ...
... 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 ...
