Uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan begins 3 Days of Mourning
June 16, 2010Kyrgyzstan has begun three days of mourning for the nearly 180 people killed in ethnic violence in the country's south. Government officials say flags will fly at half-staff starting Wednesday and that entertainment events would be canceled. News agencies...
Push for federalization of Kyrgyzstan seen having dangerous consequences
May 06, 2010By Paul Goble A new push by supporters of ousted Kyrgyzstan president Kurmanbek Bakiyev to federalize that troubled Central Asian land with Bishkek retaining control only over finances and security could lead to the fragmentation of the country, the...
Press freedom, globally, suffered more setbacks in 2009
April 29, 2010By Richard Solash, Nikola Krastev The world's press became less free in 2009, experiencing another year of setbacks. Among the top offenders were Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Iran, and Russia. That's according to a new report by the Washington...
Ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan could spark civil war, Uzbekistan's intervention
April 22, 2010By Paul Goble Ethnic clashes threaten Kyrgyzstan’s survival, Russian analyst suggests Clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz, on the one hand, and minority groups, on the other, if they come to involve ethnic Uzbeks, a Moscow analyst says, would...
Kyrgyzstan and the Uzbeks - contrasting "Stan" nations
April 16, 2010By Alisher Sidikov Inspired by national uprising resulting in the change of government in Kyrgyzstan, "The Independent's" Shaun Walker has suggested that the next "Stan" to blow up -- "and where if turmoil does come it is...
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...
Moscow Reprises Another Tactic against Ukraine
October 08, 2009By Paul Goble Over the last decade, the Commonwealth of Independent States has been reduced to little more than a club of presidents of the 11 and now, after Georgia’s withdrawal, 11 former Soviet republics. But so few presidents are slated...
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...
Seven presidents attend Chisinau CIS Summit
October 07, 2009The CIS Summit will be held in the Moldovan capital next Friday in the absence of the Presidents of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. According to the press service of the Moldovan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration...