Month: April 2014

Deirdre Tynan   The American air hub outside Bishkek may have a new name -- the Manas Transit Center -- but its operational capabilities remain largely unchanged. The new lease agreement...

Alisher Khamidov   A recent clash on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border is highlighting a simmering social problem found in and around the Fergana Valley’s many isolated enclaves. Public frustration is mounting over...

Sarah Mendelson A dark storm is brewing yet again in Russia's North Caucasus.   For the most part, the world pays little attention to this violent little backwater. That is,...

Molly Corso and Temo Bardzimashvili   War, political instability and economic crisis. Despite it all, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has endured in office. And a year after Georgia’s devastating war with...

Eurasia Insight Uzbekistan is fuming about Russian plans to establish a second military base in Kyrgyzstan. Tashkent has issued a cantankerous public statement warning that a new base would become...

Marianna Grigoryan After almost a year of discussions and declarations about improving Armenian-Turkish relations, some Armenian analysts say that the two countries’ "football diplomacy" initiative appears to have stalled. They add...

Donald K. Bandler, Jakub Kulhanek   The reaction from the American defense establishment to news that Russian submarines have been operating off the U.S. coast has been fairly nonchalant, bordering on smug....

Shahin Abbasov   Turkmenistan’s pledge to take Azerbaijan to court over the two countries’ rival claims to Caspian Sea oil fields has sparked more confusion than anger in Baku. Some Azerbaijani...

Mazhar Yasin Tüylüoğlu   Kısa bir aradan sonra yorumlamaya değer ilk gelişmede de aktör değişmedi : Binyıllık hayalini gerçekleştiren Rusya. Suriye'nin Tartus limanında bulunan ve SSCB'nin dağılmasından bu yana kullanılmayan deniz üssünün...

Joanna Lillis   Although Kazakhstan has been battered by the global financial downturn, the Central Asian nation’s citizens are still upbeat. Recent polling data shows that economic troubles have not dented...

Joshua Keating   Blood in the streets: Brutal rioting broke out this week in China's Xinjiang region between members of the Uighur ethnic group, Han Chinese, and government security forces. More...

Mazhar Yasin Tüylüoğlu   Geçtiğimiz günlerde Çin'in batı sınırında yer alan ve Doğu Türkistan olarak bilinenŞincan-Uygur Özerk Bölgesi'ndeki bir oyuncak fabrikasında çalışan Türk işçilerin, ekonomik kriz bahane edilerek işten çıkarılmalarıyla başlayan gerginlik,...

Molly Corso   Georgia is hoping the European Union will help keep the peace in the sensitive border areas near the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. But a recent...

Joanna Lillis When Nursultan Nazarbayev took charge of Soviet Kazakhstan 20 years ago, he could scarcely have imagined that two years later he would be running his own country, and less...

Mazhar Yasin Tüylüoğlu   Rusya Federasyonu Başbakanı Vladimir Putin'e çok yüksek oranlarda destek veren Rus halkından bahsediyorum. Evet, "sert" seviyorlar. Zira Putin'in devlet başkanlığı günlerinden kalma sertliğini ve karizmasını, koltuğu Medvedev'e bırakarak...