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Washington managed to block the MIR payment system in the Central Asian republics. Stanislav Pritchin, a senior researcher at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at IMEMO RAS, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, when answering the question of what to expect from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s tour to Central Asia. “It is clear that Blinken is going for a reason. American diplomacy does not even hide its goal, its...
The Russian court's decision to ban for a month the activities of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, through which most of Kazakh oil is exported, was a response to Kazakhstan's unfriendly position. Stanislav Pritchin, a senior researcher at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the IMEMO RAS, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Apparently, Russian-Kazakh relations are crossing the line of external alliance, realizing the accumulated conflict potential, moving into the stage...
If the Taliban, who have actually taken power in Afghanistan, go north, the Turkmens are unlikely to be able to give a serious rebuff. The editor-in-chief of the Fergana news agency, Daniil Kislov, told Moskovsky Komsomolets about this, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The border between Afghanistan and Turkmenistan is the weakest link in the entire Central Asian direction from the point of view of the terrorist threat. But the analysis of the situation is complicated by the fact that...
Political experts disagreed on whether Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will retain power after losing the war over Nagorno-Karabakh. Izvestia writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Thus, senior researcher at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at IMEMO Stanislav Pritchin believes that Pashinyan went through the most difficult period - the first days after the conclusion of the agreement. “The Prime Minister is responsible for the political and...
The Russian Federation does not see any grounds for interfering in the political situation in Kyrgyzstan, where, under the pressure of street protests, the process of overthrowing the current government is successfully underway. The head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, Konstantin Kosachev, stated this in a commentary to Izvestia, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He said that no requests for military support have yet been received from Bishkek to Moscow...
