Russia's Changing Profile and Influence in Central Asia - The National Interest
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has had a significant impact on its relations with the states of Central Asia.
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US Cast as Villain During Meeting of Afghan Neighbors - Voice of America
A gathering of regional foreign ministers to discuss the way forward in Afghanistan this week brought little in the way of new initiatives but provided a forum for several of Kabul’s neighbors to blame the country’s economic plight on the United States and its Western allies. The United States “was portrayed...
OPINION | Kazakhstan’s importance on a rise for global and Latvian economy - Baltic News Network
The visit of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Kazakhstan was a clear and unambiguous signal of further strengthening of economic and political ties with this Central Asian country. Kazakhstan, on the other hand, has made signals of moving away from Russia’s political orbit in favour of establishing...
Further trouble in Russia’s backyard as recent fighting between allies creates new headache for Putin - Fox News
With Russia’s war in Ukraine grabbing most international headlines, another conflict has erupted in the post-Soviet space that has major implications for both Russia and its historic sphere of influence. Nearly 100 people, including 37 civilians and four children, were killed and hundreds more injured in...
Kyrgyzstan studies neighbors’ experiences returning children from Islamic State - Eurasianet
In the middle of March 2021, a plane landed in Kyrgyzstan with 79 children onboard. Only days earlier, they had all been stuck in Iraqi prisons. Many of the children were taken to the Middle East as toddlers by parents lured by the ideological appeal of...
Expert Round Table in Washington D.C. Focuses on Kazakhstan’s Political Reforms, Stresses Demand for Change - The Astana Times
The round table titled Political Reforms in Kazakhstan in the Context of Geopolitical Shifts gathered Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on Central Asia at Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard University), Yerkin Tukumov, Director at Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies, Gavin Helf, Senior Expert on Central Asia at the U.S. Institute of Peace and Maureen Haggard, Office Director Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the U.S. Department of State.
Economic dangers from Russia's invasion ripple across globe - The Associated Press
Moscow’s war on Ukraine and the ferocious financial backlash it’s unleashed are not only inflicting an economic catastrophe on President Vladimir Putin’s Russia. The repercussions are also menacing the global economy, shaking financial markets and making life more perilous for everyone from Uzbek migrant workers to European consumers to hungry Yemeni families...
Where are the “pitfalls” in the post-conflict border settlement? - Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting
Expert on Central Asia for the U.S. Institute of Peace Dr. Gavin Helf discusses the impact of the border conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, shares the context of geopolitical picture and anticipates future ethnic clashes in an interview, exclusively for CABAR.asia...
US, UN Officials Hail Uzbekistan's Repatriation of IS Families - Voice of America
U.S. and U.N. envoys to Uzbekistan have praised the country's repatriation of Islamic State wives and children in the Middle East, saying other nations should follow suit as a part of a global effort to reduce the risk of IS reemergence in...
Repatriating ISIS Foreign Fighters Is Key to Stemming Radicalization, Experts Say, but Many Countries Don’t Want Their Citizens Back - PBS Frontline
A review of the 10 countries that yielded the most individuals affiliated with ISIS found varying levels of commitment to repatriation and prosecution. In the two years since the self-declared Islamic State lost its last physical stronghold in Raqqa, Syria, hundreds of foreign ISIS fighters, along with their wives and children, have remained in limbo...