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Main Trade Partners of Former Soviet Republics
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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.

From Bukhara to BRICS, Searching for Light in the Darkness of Insanity
August 16, 2023

On the SCO, Russia, China, India, Iran and Pakistan sit at the same table, writes Pepe Escobar.

From Bukhara to BRICS, Searching for Light in the Darkness of Insanity
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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.

Going to Samarkand
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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…

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