...
]. What is interesting to notice is that, despite the decreasing likelihood of conflict in Central Asia, in the last two years Russia has been modernizing those facilities and equipping them with new Mi-8MTV-5-1 helicopters or drones [
vii
].
While Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are members of all the organizations promoted by Russia, this is not true for the other two Central Asian countries. However, even though Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan do not have any Russian military facility on their soil, they still rely on Russia for their border security because of the Afghan issue. In 2017, following a twelve-year silence,...
... 2019, consultations were
held
in Ashgabat on cooperation between CIS countries in countering terrorism. Representatives of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Armenia discussed possible ways of expanding joint antiterrorist activities ... ... response against potential threats.
All this shows that Turkmenistan is adopting a more aggressive antiterrorist policy.
Forecast
Central Asian countries have recently stepped up the fight against terrorism and extremism, as can be seen from the lack of overt ...
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 ...
... other international organizations will not change much due to the accession of certain Central Asian republics to the EAEU. Perhaps, this relationship may become less intense... ... possible too, meaning that such cooperation, on the contrary, may well be enhanced. Kazakhstan's accession to the WTO may contribute to this. It is of primary importance for Kyrgyzstan, since within the framework of the WTO, trade between the two countries becomes... ... Muratalieva
, expert at the Institute of
Strategic Analysis and Forecasting at the
Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University
Zamira Muratalieva
:
The accession of Kyrgyzstan to the EEU...
... the crisis will have a significant impact on the perception of Russia’s role in its nearest neighborhood. In this regard,... ... understand the effects produced by the Ukrainian crisis on the Central Asian states, which are considered not only as an integral ... ... humanitarian consequences for the country
”. The public debate in Kyrgyzstan, a country that had survived two coups in 2005 and 2010,... ... where Russian-speaking minorities live in compact settlements. Kazakhstan offers the most vivid example of the latter, as the ...
