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We Are Losing Hearts and Minds in the Former Soviet Empire

(Newsweek) (Co-author: J. Zavisca) The United States has a major public relations problem in former Soviet countries. Not only in Russia, but in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and even Ukraine, ordinary people see…

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New Silk Route or Classic Developmental Cul-de-Sac? The Prospects and Challenges of China’s OBOR Initiative

In September 2013, at a speech at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Chinese Premier Xi Jinping announced plans to promote a “Silk Road Economic Belt” across neighboring Eurasian states. Over the…

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Juraev: Ahead of Kyrgyzstan parliamentary elections this fall, officials are reluctant to tackle major problems

(Eurasianet) For years, Kyrgyz herders from Osh’s hilly outskirts would come down to Ozoda Salieva’s house and take her cow and several sheep, and, for a small fee, fatten them up…

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Russia, Central Asia and the Eurasian Economic Union

(RAD) This edition is co-produced with the Central Asia Program at George Washington University. It considers how the Ukraine crisis and the Russian economic slowdown are impacting the Central Asian Republics,…

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Cooley: Kyrgyzstan is entering a new era as a Russian client state

(The Guardian) While Russia’s relationship with Ukraine has been grabbing the headlines, Moscow has been steadily strengthening its foothold in another of the post-Soviet states – Kyrgyzstan. In the past…

Pro et Contra: Views of the United States in Four Post-Soviet States

(Co-authored by Theodore Gerber and Jane Zavisca) Rising tensions between Russia and the West make public perceptions of the United States in the post-Soviet region an important policy issue. Positive…

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Kassenova: Three weak economies getting together and integrating, how much good can come out of it?

(The New York Times) Kazakhstan—The presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus formally signed an agreement Thursday to create a limited economic union—an alliance hobbled by the absence of Ukraine but…

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Kyrgyzstan – New Mayors Elected in Bishkek and Osh

This is a brief note on the mayoral elections in Bishkek and Osh. Both cities now have new mayors. Replaced were Bishkek’s hugely unpopular Isa Omurkukov and Osh’s enormously problematic…

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Cooley: Manas Transit Center a Source of Geopolitical Intrigue

(Stars and Stripes) MANAS, Kyrgyzstan — In a small village market frosted by an early December snow, the shopkeepers gathered to discuss an economic future that looked as bleak as…

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Kyrgyz Parliament Votes to Close U.S. Transit Center at Manas

On June 20, 2013, the Kyrgyz parliament voted 91-5 to cancel the U.S.-Kyrgyz agreements on the Transit Center at Manas airport to be effective one year from now in July…

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Kyrgyzstan

We Are Losing Hearts and Minds in the Former Soviet Empire

New Silk Route or Classic Developmental Cul-de-Sac? The Prospects and Challenges of China’s OBOR Initiative

Juraev: Ahead of Kyrgyzstan parliamentary elections this fall, officials are reluctant to tackle major problems

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Kyrgyz Parliament Votes to Close U.S. Transit Center at Manas