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Can the West Bump Russia Out of Central Asia?

Despite its focus on the war in Ukraine, Russia shows no signs of letting go of its legacy influence in Central Asia.
The post-Soviet republic seeks to diversify its economy beyond raw materials and portray itself as an adventure destination.
On paper, the change is simple: the informal Central Asian format is now a C6. Politically and conceptually, it is much more ...
Russian Ambitions After Ukraine Put Post-Soviet Space On Alert. Akbar Novruz Read more Recent years have shown that the ...
Not long after late 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan became independent, illegal ...
The underlying challenges to lasting peace along Central Asia’s borders lie in the fundamentally top-down structure of ...
For Yoon Esther, 26, a fourth-generation ethnic Korean from Kazakhstan, a recent heritage program in Seoul was much more than ...
The Trump administration’s transactional diplomacy in Central Asia comes with both reconfiguration and constraints. It has broadened the scope of U.S. engagement, yet its depth and structural impact ...
Was it an irrational act? Hardly. Pearl Harbor merely gave him the excuse he had long been seeking.
Zhou Zhenfan, senior expert at the Conservation Department of China’s Central Archives, presents archives related to the ...
President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree that requires many foreign men who seek permanent residency or citizenship to ...
From Australia to Kazakhstan to Greenland, the U.S. requires critical minerals mining and processing partnerships around the ...