The three countries agreed on a roadmap for building a new railway, but what are the prospects of, and problems along, the route? From the first tracks laid in 1879 …
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Turkey is a counterbalance to Russia and China’s growing presence in Central Asia, a Kazakh academic said. Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA) on the sidelines of a two-day conference in …
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China sees security issues in Central Asia as inextricably tied to its own domestic security concerns, and is rapidly establishing a footprint that will allow it to deal with matters …
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Members of a Taliban delegation, led by chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (center, front), leave after peace talks with Afghan senior politicians in Moscow on May 30, 2019 Russia …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting the newly elected president of Kyrgyzstan, voicing hope for the Central Asian nation’s political stabilization after it saw a violent change of government for …
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The president’s sudden buck-passing to specialists is a little anxiety-inducing, since it may indicate something is wrong Every few months brings news of fresh privatizations in Turkmenistan. The piecemeal, if …
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Both Russia and the United States are advertising new strategies for dealing with Central Asia, but each is deficient in its own way. While Russia seeks to exclude Afghanistan from …
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Azerbaijan’s victory in the Second Karabakh War (September 29–November 9) has had a transformative effect on the country. It not only changed the attitudes of its population, whose members now …
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Kazakh academic says Turkey should expand military, scientific, cultural relations with Turkic nations Turkey is a counterbalance to Russia and China’s growing presence in Central Asia, a Kazakh academic said. …
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It has been obvious for several years that Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has been grooming his son, Serdar, to become the country’s next leader. The most recent example came in …
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