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Smashing Greater Central Asia (III)

Monday, December 12, 2011

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Smashing Greater Central Asia (III)

Part I Part II Representatives from all of the secret agencies of the Stans, except for Turkmenistan, have come together in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan to identify a common threat in Central Asia, emanating from a non-existent terrorist underground (SEE: Secret services say about the presence in Central Asia, domestic extremist underground). This consensus on a common [...]

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Smashing Greater Central Asia (II)

Sunday, October 16, 2011

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Smashing Greater Central Asia (II)

Part I In the grand scheme of things, as conceived inside Washington, D.C., the world is a three-dimensional chess board, much like the ones seen on Star Trek, or more accurately, like the modern game called “Risk.” For those unfamiliar with this popular cult board game, it is literally a game of world conquest, fought [...]

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New Integration Project for Eurasia – Making the Future Today

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

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New Integration Project for Eurasia – Making the Future Today

ORIENTAL REVIEW republishes the full text of outstanding article written by the Russian leader Vladimir Putin last week. There are already many speculations in the international press regarding his intention to establish Eurasian Union on the part of post-Soviet space. It is always reasonable to study the original source before arguing…   January 1, 2012, [...]

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Libyan Scenario for Central Asia?

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

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Libyan Scenario for Central Asia?

Russian general staff chief Gen. N. Makarov warned at a media briefing in Moscow on September 12 that revolutions patterned on the Libyan one can recur in Central Asia… Overall, the pertinent scenario includes the incitement of public unrest, civilian fatalities, international condemnations of repressions against protesters, the passing of a UN resolution partially authorizing [...]

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Political Battles on Kyrgyzstan’s Horizon

Friday, August 5, 2011

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Political Battles on Kyrgyzstan’s Horizon

For the first time in Kyrgyzstan’s post-Soviet history, the elections which are due in the fall of 2011 present the republic with a chance to name a new country leader at the polling booths rather than at the peak of public unrest. Its previous two regime changes which culminated in the unseating of Askar Akayev [...]

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Central Asia: Top 10 Developments in 2010

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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Central Asia: Top 10 Developments in 2010

By Alexander Shustov (Russia) The present list of top 10 developments in Central Asia in 2010 was compiled on the basis of the author’s assessment of their impact on the region’s political and socioeconomic landscape. In any case, the developments surveyed below will likely have enduring repercussions for Central Asia. 1. The second revolution in [...]

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Post-Election Kyrgyzstan: Shadows of Akayev and Bakiyev

Saturday, October 16, 2010

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Post-Election Kyrgyzstan: Shadows of Akayev and Bakiyev

Alexander SHUSTOV (Russia) Finally, the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan to which the republic exhausted by the permanent crisis and craving for at least some sort of stability was inching so nervously are over. Contrary to alarmist forecasts, they neither were accompanied by another round of public unrest nor provoked clashes like those Kyrgyzstan’s south was [...]

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The West’s Plans to Partition Kyrgyzstan Are Nearing Completion

Thursday, September 23, 2010

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The West’s Plans to Partition Kyrgyzstan Are Nearing Completion

Igor Kaminnik (Russia) The last days of summer 2010 in Kyrgyzstan saw two events that can confidently be called crucial. The first event occurred when the international community began massaging information. On August 23, the International Crisis Group published a report and recommendations on its official website concerning events that occurred in the southern part [...]

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The Pseudostate of Kyrgyzstan

Friday, July 16, 2010

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The Pseudostate of Kyrgyzstan

Andrei GROZIN (Russia) “Post-post-revolutionary Kyrgyzstan, which has long been on the way to becoming a full-fledged failed state, recently took new strides in that direction.” This time, there is no hint of a foreign plot against the Republic. There simply has been no conspiracy, nor is there one now. The systemic crisis in Kyrgyzstan grew [...]

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Kyrgyzstan is the latest drama in the Central Asian Great Power Game

Friday, June 25, 2010

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Kyrgyzstan is the latest drama in the Central Asian Great Power Game

Adrian PABST (UK) Last week’s outburst of mass violence in southern Kyrgyzstan killed thousands and displaced around 400,000 ethnic Uzbeks – with most lacking any humanitarian aid and 100,000 now in temporary camps in neighbouring Uzbekistan. Representing about 15% of the Kyrgyzstan’s 5.6 million population, ethnic Uzbeks are the victims of pogroms staged by shadowy [...]

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Osh Massacre and International Politics

Thursday, June 17, 2010

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Osh Massacre and International Politics

Andrei ARESHEV (Russia) The massacre in Osh, a city in the southern part of Kyrgyzstan, will have far-reaching consequences for entire Central Asia. There is an array of causes behind the recent developments in Kyrgyzstan. Some of the watchers charge that the clashes were provoked by supporters of the ousted Kyrgyz president K. Bakiev and [...]

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Outside Agitation In Kyrgyzstan

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

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Outside Agitation In Kyrgyzstan

Peter CHAMBERLIN (USA) In Kyrgyzstan, we see the democratic-revolutionary counterpart to America’s “intelligence-driven wars”—rumor-driven confrontations. It can be clearly seen in the so-called “ethnic-conflict” in southern Kyrgyzstan, where ethnic and cultural differences are being amplified by unknown forces firing machine guns from untagged vehicles, young women and old ladies screaming or whispering the right phrases [...]

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