Central Asia
Russian Military Planners Thinking About a Post-CIS Eurasia
October 21, 2009By Paul Goble In the clearest indication yet that senior officials in Moscow are worried about what will happen if, as seems likely, the Commonwealth of Independent States dissolves, an article in the journal of the Russian military-industrial...
Russia Facing Resistance With Allies On CIS's Southern Flank
October 09, 2009By Bruce Pannier Russia's relations with the three states that make up the southern flank of the Commonwealth Of Independent States -- Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan -- have suffered severe setbacks of late. Uzbekistan has annoyed the Kremlin...
COEST troika hears new Moldovan government's tasks
October 08, 2009A Moldovan delegation led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Natalia Gherman presented the main provisions of the new Moldovan Government's work program to the Troika of the Council of the European Union on Eastern Europe and...
Basescu urges OSCE to back Moldova's democratic aspirations
October 08, 2009Romanian President Traian Basescu called on the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, to support, by OSCE projects, Moldova's European and democratic aspirations, the presidential administration...
What if the CIS holds a Summit, and no one comes?
October 07, 2009By Robert Coalson There is none of the extraordinary street-cleaning or painting of dingy facades going on in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, that one might expect as the city prepares to host a summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS...
Michael Emerson: Scrapping the missiles - a tipping point?
September 30, 2009By Michael Emerson President Obama’s decision announced on 17 September to scrap the plans for a radar installation in the Czech Republic linked to missile defence installations in Poland may herald a tipping point in US and EU relations with Russia...
Central Asia’s Uyghur Problems Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
July 09, 2009By Paul Goble The violence in Xinjiang has highlighted the plight of the Uyghurs living under often brutal Chinese rule and called attention to the broader Uyghur problem across Central Asia, where many Uyghurs live and whose regimes must now find...
- China's Uyghurs -- A Minority In Their Own Land?
July 08, 2009By Breffni O'Rourke The Uyghurs of western China are an ethnic Turkic people who are by tradition Muslim, and who feel more kinship with the peoples of Central Asia than with the Han Chinese -- the communist state's dominant population. The Uyghurs...
Eastern Turkestan Violence Casts a Shadow on Russia
July 08, 2009By Paul Goble As the violence in Xinjiang continues, ever more Russian analysts are focusing not just on what is going on there between the Uyghurs and the Han Chinese authorities but also on the implications of the violence there for Russia both as...
'Scent of War' Spreads Across CIS
June 30, 2009By Paul Goble Nearly a year after the Russian Federation violated the longstanding assumption that no post-Soviet state would use military force against another, “the scent of war” is spreading across the Commonwealth of Independent States...
