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Apparently, the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev decided, if not to break, then to sharply cool relations with the Russian leadership, refusing both the creation of a triple “gas union” and participation in the recent EAEU summit. This is a sensitive blow to integration processes in the post-Soviet space and Central Asia, especially since Uzbekistan has observer status...
The situation in Kazakhstan has by no means stabilized; the process of destabilization has begun throughout Central Asia. Political scientist Vardan Baghdasaryan stated this on the Red Line TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “When American troops were withdrawing from Afghanistan, many people assessed that all this would very soon spread to Central Asia. So that's how it spread. And it spread soon enough...
Following Russophobia, all the republics of Central Asia are covered by a wave of rehabilitation of Nazi collaborators and enemies of Soviet power. Uzbekistan was no exception, where this process was sanctioned at the very top, and 115 Basmachi were declared national heroes. In many ways, Tashkent copies neighboring Kazakhstan, diligently adopting the experience of “Ukrainization” through the total rehabilitation of those who were impossible even 10 years ago...
