... and domestic conditions, but, obviously, the crisis will have a significant impact on the perception of Russia’s role in its nearest neighborhood. In this regard, it is important to understand the effects produced by the Ukrainian crisis on the Central Asian states, which are considered not only as an integral sphere of Russian influence, but also as the main platform for implementing the Eurasian integration project.
Despite the fact that information in Central Asian states is essentially closed ...
... of the Center
Igor Denisov
, Center Deputy Head
Anatoly Klimenko
, as well as working paper coauthors Dr. Luzyanin and Dr. Matveyev.
The analysts discussed the SCO role in the modern system of international relations, key challenges and threats in Central Asia, prospects for the SCO expansion and development of its economic and humanitarian components. The participants also summed up the outcomes of the 10th SCO forum held on March 11-12 in Khanty-Mansiysk under the chair of MGIMO Center for East ...
Afghan challenges in Central Asia
As they become more involved in the complex process of geopolitical balancing, the post-Soviet states of Central Asia are trying to shrink away from orienting on a single global or regional center in order to maintain smooth relations with ...
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The Silk Road through the prism of the Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS.
RIAC Program Manager Helena Alekseyenkova spoke on common interests of Russia and China in the economic development, stability and security of Central Asia – the region to be perceived by the concept as a co-development area rather than a transit territory. To this end, the EEU and Great Silk Road seem hardly conflicting, since the former is aimed at institutional and juridical association ...
For much of the post-Soviet period, Central Asia has been a backwater of Russian foreign policy. But things are changing. Circumstances in and beyond the region are driving a more committed approach in Moscow. Central Asia is critical to Putin’s aim of establishing Russia as the leading ...
On December 17, 2014, Bishkek was the venue of a working meeting for staffers and experts of RIAC and
Kyrgyz National Institute for Strategic Studies
on a future joint migration project.
Russia is hosting about 500,000 Kyrgyz immigrants with Russian citizenship and about the same number of Kyrgyz citizens, with quite a lot of migration issues on the agenda, among them the impact of Bishkek's presence in the Customs Union and Eurasian Economic Union, as well as and economic calamity in Russia.
Representatives...
Russia and Iran in the region: allies or rivals?
Iran occupies an important place in Central Asia’s system of political and economic relations. It may not boast impressive resources such as those of Central Asian countries’ leading partners (China, Russia, the EU), and faces substantial political restraints due to the current ...
Let us consider Central Asia. There are currently three primary concerns in the region as of 2014: drug trafficking, Islamist terrorism, and poverty. The three problems are, of course, inextricable -- the first funds the second, and the third inspires the former two....
On June 20, 2014, RIAC and UNDP held a roundtable "Current Problems of Central Asia Development", with the UNDP represented by UN Resident Coordinators/UNDP Resident Representatives in Central Asia and Azerbaijan, their deputies, and officers of the UNDP Regional Bureau in Europe and Central Asia.
The RIAC representatives ...
On June 17, 2014, RIAC held an invitations-only roundtable on Central Asia in view of the Western coalition withdrawal from Afghanistan and prospects for Russia-U.S. cooperation in the region.
The participants focused on the situation in Afghanistan, key security risks related to the U.S. and NATO troops withdrawal,...
