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Main Trade Partners of Former Soviet Republics

March 21, 2024

The Soviet Union broke up in 1991 with fifteen independent states arising instead. Check out our infographic to learn what these states’ main trade partners are more than thirty years on.

Strategic Infographics

Iraq Turns to Qatar, Turkmenistan to Reduce Reliance on Iranian Gas

July 12, 2023

Iraqis are suffering from soaring summer temperatures amid electricity shortages caused by reduced supplies of Iranian gas.

Iraq Turns to Qatar, Turkmenistan to Reduce Reliance on Iranian Gas

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Turkey Expanding Multinational Turkic Council to Counteract CSTO, SCO in ‘Eurasian Continent’

June 29, 2021

The Turkic Council was set up in 2009 with Turkey as its prime mover, five years after the nation hosted the NATO summit in Istanbul that recorded the largest-ever expansion of the military bloc.

Caspian Games: Central Asian ‘Stans’ Vie for Connectivity Market

April 21, 2018

Azerbaijan, as a Caspian nation, maintains deep ethnic and linguistic links with Turkey. Yet Baku prizes secularism in an Ataturk vein – which sets it at odds with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamic-tinged neo-Ottomanism.

Caspian Games: Central Asian ‘Stans’ Vie for Connectivity Market

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Central Asia: Diplomatic Activities Hit High Gear near Russia’s Soft Underbelly

January 28, 2016

Since mid-December till mid-January presidents, prime ministers and foreign chiefs of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Turkmenistan held a record number of meetings, mainly in Ashgabat, some in Tbilisi and Baku…

Alexei Baliev

Afghanistan: Militants Posing Imminent Threat to Central Asia (II)

June 7, 2015

…The situation is an imminent threat to Russia with its many centuries-long history of living together with Central Asian nations. Unlike the US or the EU, Central Asia is close to Russian borders, and there is a plethora of common interests to unite Moscow with the states of the region. Unlike the West, Russia never imposed its vision of democracy and human rights protection. Common security concerns have produced the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), an organization with teeth serving as an instrument to safeguard peace and stability in Central Asia…

Andrei Akulov

Afghanistan: Militants Posing Imminent Threat to Central Asia (II)

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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

Turkmenistan Confronts Threat from South

March 1, 2015

The US and NATO war in Afghanistan has come to a formal end. As expected, it resulted in further aggravation of the situation on the southern borders of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The 745 km long Turkmenistan-Afghanistan border has become the hottest spot. The Taliban attacks have intensified since the spring of 2014 to become even more threatening than before. In January 2015, Ashgabat started mobilization to last till the end of March. The threat is serious enough to make Turkmenistan build additional fortifications at the frontier with Afghan Jowzjan Province to include a 6 meter deep ditch and barbed wire fencing with 2 meter high concrete pillars in between…

Alexei Baliev

Turkmenistan Confronts Threat from South

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