... 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 adapted to the complicated international environment by shifting the military parades from May 9 to May 7 so that their presidents can also take part in the Victory Parade in Moscow and demonstrate their readiness to cooperate with Russia.
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... policy. However, the gradual lifting of sanctions and Iran's attempts to improve relations with the West and to reintegrate the country into the global economy weakened this factor, and made Tashkent less ideologically circumspect of Iran. However, Uzbekistan still fears that the construction of hydropower plants in Tajikistan could reduce the inflow of water resources to the country, leading to water resource management and increased water discharge in winter and the accumulation of water in reservoirs in summer. Uzbekistan is particularly concerned by the construction ...
... with Kuchera and turns its attention to Russia and China, waiting to see how the withdrawal of coalition leads the players of the Central Asian “Game” to change their behaviour and bid on different CA countries. United States - focusing on Uzbekistan, Russia - on Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and China - on everyone, but the least of all on Kyrgyzstan. Since the beginning of 2013 CA countries started to declare the willingness of their major partners, mostly Russia and China, to make huge donations to the regions economies. Although ...
... 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 any opportunities ...
... from “latent” to “emergence” stage. 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 ...
... access to Uzbek enclave in Kyrgyzstan and small mean tricks in the areas where borders are still vague are also meaningful.
Anyway, border issues are used in CA in politics in a following ways:
As sanction on the neighbouring country - the example of Tajikistan-Uzbekistan conflict describes this using of border politics at it’s best.
Regulating migration. The major trend for the future in Central Asia is migration, and according to it’s law - people flow where the money flows. In this case borders ...
