... is the situation in Afghanistan, where the Taliban provide organisational and logistics support to the
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
(IMU). Despite sustaining a significant blow, with its main groups squeezed out of the region, it still maintains a ... ... Kyrgyzstan reports that 4,470 people, including 865 women, were convicted of extremist crimes from January to April 2018 alone.
Turkmenistan
In early October 2018, a Financial Monitoring Service was
set up
under the Ministry of Finance and Economics to ...
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 mechanisms and rural human capital, and knowledge sharing for instance. Any proposal of U.S.-Russia cooperation in a concrete domain will have to be made in a tri- or-multipartite...
... unstable, and there was no redistribution of resources (primarily of gas), that had been forecast earlier (it is noteworthy that Turkmenistan, whose gas potential was so much relied on by the EU, does not even have a representation of the Delegation of EU).... ... variety of projects, the new period will focus on projects in:
Kyrgyzstan — rule of law, education, and rural development;
Uzbekistan — rural development;
Turkmenistan — education.
The EU intends to link “pragmatically” the issues of economic ...
