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‘Samarkand Spirit’ to Be Driven by ‘Responsible Powers’ Russia and China
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‘Samarkand Spirit’ to Be Driven by ‘Responsible Powers’ Russia and China
September 19, 2022

The SCO summit of Asian power players delineated a road map for strengthening the multipolar world

Going to Samarkand
July 30, 2022

The SCO and other pan-Eurasian organizations play a completely different – respectful, consensual – ball game. And that’s why they are catching the full attention of most of the Global South.

Pepe Escobar
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Does the New U.S.-led ‘Quad’ With Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan Have China in Its Sights?
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Does the New U.S.-led ‘Quad’ With Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan Have China in Its Sights?
August 8, 2021

Little is known about the new quadrilateral framework announced last month between the United States, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan except that it is aimed at enhancing regional connectivity.

What Obama Doesn’t Want You to Know About Uzbekistan
September 8, 2016

Death is usually a sad event. The passing of a world leader, particularly one who brought stability to a tense part of the Muslim world for several decades, is typically cause for concern.

What Obama Doesn’t Want You to Know About Uzbekistan
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Karimov’s Death Opens the Way for ISIS
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Karimov’s Death Opens the Way for ISIS
September 5, 2016

Islam Karimov is one of the two heads of the former Soviet states who had been ruling the country since independence in 1991. The other one is the president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev (age 76). After Karimov’s death, a country where power was centralized in one man, risks falling into destabilization.

Afghan Insurgency Spreading North
May 28, 2015

Afghanistan comes to the fore of Central Asian agenda. The situation has greatly exacerbated in the northern Afghan provinces… Until recently it had been widely believed that the central authorities in Kabul were fighting the Taliban. Now a third belligerent emerged. Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser, Mohammad Hanif Atmar, has said that the presence of Daesh, or the Islamic State, is growing. According to him, the group plans to seize control of Central Asia and then move to Russia. The efforts to fight the Islamic State in Afghanistan are not enough to counter the threat…

Nikolai Bobkin
Afghan Insurgency Spreading North
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Afghanistan and its Future (III)
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Afghanistan and its Future (III)
October 9, 2013

Washington does not exclude that the repetition of Syria scenario caused by NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan may result in strategic advantage to meet its interests. Controlled chaos is a tried and true method. A would-be war in Afghanistan will enable the Americans to control the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, maintain instability in the vicinity of Iranian borders and exacerbate the relations between India and Pakistan. Finally, the United States will maintain a springboard to exert pressure on Central Asia. Since 2014 Afghanistan is to become a major security problem for Russia…

Nikolai Bobkin
Is Central Asia Ripe for Regime Change? (I)
April 9, 2013

The persisting speculations regarding political succession in Uzbekistan, the incipient trends of unrest in Azerbaijan in recent months as the country lurches toward a crucial presidential election, growing volatility of the situation in Afghanistan – what surges to the mind is the great Middle Eastern upheaval known as the «Arab Spring.» Are we nearing a «tipping point» in Central Asia?..

Melkulangara Bhadrakumar
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