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Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz, Józef Lang

Turkmenistan looks to the West

Ashgabat’s actions indicate that it does not see Russia and China as a partners which can guarantee the durability of its interests.
Analyses | | Józef Lang

The Luftwaffe and American military equipment in Uzbekistan

On 30 January Germany’s ambassador to Uzbekistan officially confirmed that a small German air base in Termez in Uzbekistan will continue to function.
OSW Studies | | Józef Lang, Maciej Falkowski

Hostages to Moscow clients of Beijing Security in Central Asia as the role of the West diminishes

The end of the Western military presence in Central Asia will mean the West’s influence on the security sphere in the region will be marginalised.
Analyses | | Aleksandra Jarosiewicz, Józef Lang

Russian investments in Kyrgyzstan

The Russian investments in Kyrgyzstan show that Russia is ready to strengthen its presence in Central Asia by using economic tools also.
Analyses | | Józef Lang

Increase in tensions in the Fergana Valley

The latest clashes represent the largest border incident in the region for years, but the same problem is chronic throughout the Fergana Valley.
OSW Report | | Józef Lang

The Radical Islamic Militants of Central Asia

Radical Islamic militants from Central Asia have ceased to be a local phenomenon. They have become a kind of ‘jihad academy’.
Analyses | | Józef Lang

Kyrgyzstan has terminated the agreement with the US on the Manas air base

On 26 June president Almazbek Atambayev signed the law which terminated the agreement signed with the US relating to the use of the Manas Transit Centre. The law was adopted amid an atmosphere of intense American-Russian rivalry in…
Analyses | | Józef Lang

An increasing crisis in Kyrgyzstan – moving towards a fallen state

In recent months the situation in Kyrgyzstan has systematically deteriorated and over the last two weeks violent protests have been held both in the north and south of the country. Despite the growing internal problems and further possible…
Analyses | | Józef Lang

Ethnic and border tension between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

On 6 January, a major border incident took place on the frontier of Sokh, an Uzbek exclave in Kyrgyzstan. People from the Uzbek village of Hushar attacked a newly built Kyrgyz border watchtower and then entered Kyrgyz territory. As a…
Analyses | | Józef Lang

Kazakhstan is combating Islamic terrorism

On 15 October, Ermukhamet Ertysbayev, a political advisor to President Nursultan Nazarbayev, recommended an Anti-Terrorist Committee to be established in Kazakhstan. The comittee would be in charge of broadly defined fight against…