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China's Growing Economic Importance to Central Asia

15:00 29.06.2012

China's Growing Economic Importance to Central Asia

The June summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) highlighted China's swelling economic presence in Central Asia. Chinese premier Hu Jintao unveiled an ambitious agenda for the region, with $10b in loans to be infused into the corresponding projects. At the moment, the Chinese investments in Central Asian republics estimatedly …

What the Future Holds for the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline

15:00 30.05.2012

What the Future Holds for the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline

On May 23, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India penned a deal to construct the Trans-Afghanistan pipeline which is supposed to pump gas from Turkmenistan to South Asia. It appears at the moment that the partners in the project whose feasibility provoked debates of varying intensity since the early 1990ies finally …

Clashes in Kazakhstan: inspired by the Arab Spring?

15:00 19.12.2011

Clashes in Kazakhstan: inspired by the Arab Spring?

In the past few months Kazakhstan, once the quietest country in Central Asia, has turned into a hotbed of extremism. On December 16th when Kazakhstan marked its Independence Day, violent clashes took place in the western town of Zhanaozen in Mangistau district. State-run media and opposition supporters offer an absolutely …

Will the Trans-Caspian Pipeline Be There Despite Russia's Opposition?

15:00 03.10.2011

Will the Trans-Caspian Pipeline Be There Despite Russia's Opposition?

This September was marked with a recurrence of pipeline disputes between Russia and the EU. On September 16, Russian premier V. Putin blessed in Sochi an agreement on the construction of the marine section of South Stream, the pipeline intended to rid Russia of the dependence on Ukraine for gas …

Libyan Scenario for Central Asia?

15:00 20.09.2011

Libyan Scenario for Central Asia?

Russian general staff chief Gen. N. Makarov warned at a media briefing in Moscow on September 12 that revolutions patterned on the Libyan one can recur in Central Asia. Overall, the pertinent scenario includes the incitement of public unrest, civilian fatalities, international condemnations of repressions against protesters, the passing of …

The Arabian Revolutions and Central Asia

14:00 16.03.2011

The Arabian Revolutions and Central Asia

A wave of anti-government protests in the Arab world has made us think about whether such events are possible in other parts of the planet. Then Central Asia comes to mind immediately as a region which has much in common with the Arab civilization. The leaders of Central Asian regions …

Central Asia: Top 10 Developments in 2010

14:00 18.01.2011

Central Asia: Top 10 Developments in 2010

The present list of top 10 developments in Central Asia in 2010 was compiled on the basis of the author's assessment of their impact on the region's political and socioeconomic landscape. In any case, the developments surveyed below will likely have enduring repercussions for Central Asia. The second revolution in …

Radical Islam attacks Central Asia

14:00 26.11.2010

Radical Islam attacks Central Asia

Hizb ut-Tahrir and other similar international radical Islamic political organizations have intensified their activities in Central Asia. In Tajikistan several dozens of members of Hizb ut-Tahrir have been arrested. During such arrests police usually finds batches of books, brochures, CDs with the propaganda of radical Islam. In August, a court …

Central Asia Warring Over Water

14:00 25.11.2010

Central Asia Warring Over Water

The water dispute between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan stemming from the Rogun hydroelectric plant project and the related problem of water volumes availability intensified this fall. One of the causes behind the escalation is that Tajikistan is about to face the traditional seasonal electricity rationing, another – that Russia's involvement in …

Post-Election Kyrgyzstan: Shadows of Akayev and Bakiyev

15:00 14.10.2010

Post-Election Kyrgyzstan: Shadows of Akayev and Bakiyev

Finally, the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan to which the republic exhausted by the permanent crisis and craving for at least some sort of stability was inching so nervously are over. Contrary to alarmist forecasts, they neither were accompanied by another round of public unrest nor provoked clashes like those Kyrgyzstan's …

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