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Is Central Asia afraid of ISIS?

12.11.2014 17:57 msk Afghanistan Analytics Central Asia China Interview Iran Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan Politics Religious life Russia Tajikistan Turkey, Republic of Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

Several weeks ago ISIS (also known as ISIL and Islamic State) forces reached Turkey’s borders, destroying all ‘infidels’ in their path, by which they mean both Christians and Muslims belonging to other branches of Islam. Support for ISIS has also extended beyond its region: Afghan and Pakistani memb

Carnegie Moscow presents Russo-Turkish cooperation in “turbulent neighborhood” report

24.10.2014 13:41 msk Afghanistan Analytics Central Asia China Iran Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Pakistan Politics Russia Tajikistan Turkey, Republic of Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

Carnegie Moscow Center presented the “Exploring the Prospects of Russian-Turkish Cooperation in a Turbulent Neighborhood” report compiled by the Carnegie Center and the Global Relations Forum (GRF) in Istanbul. The two organizations established a Working Group dedicated to exploring the potential fo

Islam Karimov and the Goldfish

18.03.2013 09:59 msk Afghanistan Analytics Central Asia Ferghana Valley Politics Uzbekistan

Several Uzbek mass media outlets unexpectedly started beating the war bells over the last several days. Alert! The motherland is in danger! Russian and Central Asian mass media outlets echoed said concerns in reprinted articles with hints of dysphoria. This time around the chief alarmist is Ubaydull

High level experts meeting on Afghanistan upcoming in Dubai

04.11.2011 14:16 msk Afghanistan Politics

An international experts’ meeting to take place in Dubai, the largest city of the United Arab Emirates («Al Bustan Center & Residence Deluxe Apartment» hotel) on November 8-9, 2011: “Afghanistan in 2001-2011: towards sustainable state and society”.

Why does Afghanistan need railroad?

04.12.2009 09:14 msk Afghanistan Business

At the end of October of 2009 the state-owned railroad company of Uzbekistan became the winner of tender, organized by the government of Afghanistan for the construction of the Hairaton-Mazar-i-Sharif railroad part with the length of 75 kilometers. At the end of November $129 million project was app

Eight years of ISAF operations in Afghanistan. Who are the winners?

09.10.2009 16:29 msk Afghanistan Analytics

The Enduring Freedom operation was launched in the night of October 7, 2001. International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF), operating under NATO, have been present in Afghanistan for already 8 years. ISAF are represented by 39 countries, both inside and outside NATO.

Arkady Dubnov: The Afghanis tolerate armed occupiers but it is getting increasingly more difficult to do so

02.06.2009 11:26 msk Afghanistan Interview

The US Mission to NATO regularly invites Western journalists to Afghanistan to show what is being done there in terms of security and how. Six European journalists representing Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Iceland, Georgia and Russia made the trip from Kabul to Kandahar to Bamian to Kabul again this

An update on Moscow's position with regard to negotiations with Taliban

17.11.2008 13:24 msk Afghanistan Analytics

The latest reports from Afghanistan where the irreconcilable opposition reverted to violence and terror indicate that the country may find itself back in civil war. This problem is becoming a serious headache for the West that keeps a major military contingent in Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai

Bush to Shift Troops to Afghanistan From Iraq

09.09.2008 11:33 msk Afghanistan Analytics

President George W. Bush will announce Tuesday a gradual redeployment of U.S. military personnel from Iraq to increasingly violent Afghanistan, with as many as 4,500 new troops slated to deploy to Afghanistan by January.

Ahmad Wali Masoud believes that investment in Afghanistan may be quite profitable

02.07.2008 12:16 msk Afghanistan Interview

Experts admit to being baffled by what is happening today in Afghanistan. Many militias and clans are battling with each other, foreign military contingents are spread throughout the country, the economy is thoroughly crime-ridden, and other factors contribute to a very complicated scenario. Also, a

Valery Ivanov: "We have built 142 base objects in Afghanistan for its economy…"

22.06.2008 17:21 msk Afghanistan Interview

Valery N. Ivanov is a valid State Councilor of Russian Federation of the third rank (retired). At present he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Russian-Afghan Business Council. V.Ivanov had been working at different times at different posts in Afghanistan, 22 years altogether, as a transla

Update on the international conference «Afghanistan, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Eurasian Security and Geopolitics»

18.06.2008 18:31 msk Afghanistan Analytics

An international conference entitled, "Afghanistan, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Eurasian Security and Geopolitics," took place in the village of Choktal on the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul on June 11-12. Experts, politicians, and scientists from Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, T

US AF serving Afghani drug dealers

28.11.2007 12:20 msk Afghanistan Analytics

Afghani drugs are as much a pressing problem of the international community as the global warming is. Existence of the problem is recognized by everybody but a solution to it is not known. An international conference on the subject took place in Kabul in late October. According to the UN report pres

Tajikistan: hostage situations on the border with Afghanistan are commonplace occurrences

08.10.2007 12:50 msk Afghanistan Human Rights

Mamadsharif Hotamov, villager of Shohon (Shuroabad district, Hatlon region of Tajikistan), was kidnapped at 23.00 on September 25. A group of armed people broke into Hotamov's house and took him away.

Another record poppy crop in Afghanistan expected this year

14.09.2007 16:18 msk Afghanistan

The data on the rapidly growing production of opium in Afghanistan this year stirred a worldwide wave of criticism of the United States and Great Britain for the patent inefficiency of their struggle with drugs in this country.

President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai will visit Turkmenistan

04.07.2007 09:57 msk Afghanistan Business

President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai will visit Turkmenistan later this week. Karzai and his host, President Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov, will discuss the trans-Afghan gas pipeline project.

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