Category: Russia and Eurasia

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...

Deirdre Tynan   lthough the Kyrgyz government adamantly denies it, it appears as though US forces will be staying at Manas air base outside Bishkek for at least another year.  ...

Mina Muradova   the tangled three-way relationship involving Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey is taking on the characteristics of a Gordian Knot. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks with Azerbaijani...

Joshua Kucera   when Kazakhstan was named 2010 chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Astana pledged to undertake wide-ranging political reforms. But now, just over six months...

Scott Lucas   oon after the Obama Administration took office, we concluded that its Pakistan policy was going around President Asif Ali Zardari, rather than working with him. Two weeks...