Uzbekistan
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...
Louis O'Neill: Moldova's Near Miss With Nepotism
October 05, 2009By Louis O'Neill Every leader wants to be surrounded by people he can trust. And who, after all, is generally more trustworthy and loyal than family? Upon assuming the presidency of the United States in 1961, John F. Kennedy looked to have his campaign...
- 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...
Analysis: Uzbekistan gains little from Fradkov visit
April 03, 2007Author: Monika Shepherd, ISCIP Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov recently paid an official visit to Tashkent, the first time a Russian prime minister has done so since 1999. (1) Uzbekistan’s decision last summer to rejoin the Collective Security...
EU Extends Post-Andijon Sanctions On Uzbekistan
November 13, 2006The Council of the European Union, which is the bloc's main decision-making body, today voted to extend the arms embargo on Uzbekistan for another 12 months. The embargo was imposed following the military crackdown in the Uzbek city of Andijon in...
EU-Uzbekistan relations: Energy issues vs. human rights
November 09, 2006By Monika Shepherd, ISCIP, Boston University On 17 November, the sanctions imposed on Uzbekistan in October 2005 by the European Union (EU) will expire, unless all 25 of the EU member states are able to reach an agreement on which, if any, of the...
