... different levels of awareness of the vulnerability caused by such developments. The opposite ends of the spectrum are represented by Turkmenistan, which has not emphasized its attitude to what was happening, and Uzbekistan that stressed its commitment to refraining ... ... focus on the issue of the referendum of the Crimean population and in all its statements drew parallels with the civil war in Tajikistan, thereby condemning the domestic destabilization. Bishkek actually recognized the results of the Crimean referendum,...
... markets of
the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia,
which have become an important source of
foreign exchange earnings for Turkmenistan
The countries of the region consider communications infrastructure construction a key element in diversifying transport ... ... hydropower plants and pipelines, and plans to lay a power line from its border through Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif, up to the borders of Tajikistan. Tajikistan occupies a particular place in relations between Iran and the Central Asian states, which is due not so ...
... 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 ...
... to divide this territory into national republics, so in the beginning there were Kyrgyzstan ASSR and Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1924, based on the idea that class struggle should prevail over ethnic struggle, Tajik ASSR (now Tajikistan), Turkmen SSR (now Turkmenistan), Uzbek SSR (now Uzbekistan), Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast (now Kyrgyzstan), and Karakalpak Autonomous Oblast (now Karakalpakstan) were created. Divisions were made by counting - they investigated the ethnic compound of any disputed village ...
... Moscow's interests in this complex, fast changing region often leave out another important issue, i.e. how the Kremlin's policies, and modern Russia as a whole, are perceived, not by political elites, but by the general public in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.
It is critical to establish whether the perception of Russia in Central Asia is broadly similar across the entire region or country-specific.
For example, Kazakhstan, Russia's main strategic partner, is widely believed to regard the present ...
