Russia’s war on Ukraine has helped put the spotlight on Central Asia. It is there that the new Great Game is being played out, with great powers wooing the region, even as Russia continues to remain distracted with Ukraine
A feud between the Wagner Group leader and the Russian military brass that had festered throughout the war erupted into a mutiny on Sunday that saw the mercenaries leave Ukraine to seize a military headquarter in Russia’s Roston-on-Don city before turning back
In Uzbekistan in recent years, all the necessary prerequisites have appeared for the creation of a social state and the consolidation of this status in the Constitution
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China is more popular with elites than with the public in Central Asian countries
In the backdrop of sharpening brinkmanship in China-US relations this increasingly assertive tone of China is bound to become only even more pronounced in coming times. Backing such an assertion has seen China continued focus on its military modernisation.
Despite waning relations withe the US, Arab nations still see China only as an emerging economic partner
The SCO Summit in Samarkand has already entered the history of the organization, both in terms of the number of documents prepared and adopted, and in terms of the dynamics of the involvement of new states in the work of the organization. This is a brilliant success of the policy of openness and integration of Uzbekistan into the world economy pursued by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
By Shavkat Mirziyoyev President, Republic of Uzbekistan Uzbekistan’s chairmanship in the SCO has fallen on
Uzbekistan’s involvement in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation has always been marked by a strong focus on economic cooperation. Tashkent will continue to use this approach during its current leadership of the SCO.
Presently, Bangladesh has gradually slid from secularism, pluralism, elective democracy, gender equality, and reducing the disparity between the rich and poor, something that was imbued in the “Declaration of Independence”.