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Commentary: Russia working to protect its language position in Central Asia

By Carly Brant for Eurasianet In late 2025, Russia launched a new Russian-language television channel in Kyrgyzstan, aiming ...
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History repeating itself: Is Russia trying to ruin Central Asian integration efforts?

By Farkhod Tolipov In mid-December 2025, several Russian state-controlled media outlets spread a rumour that Russia could ...
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Immigrants from Central Asia find hostility and violence in Russia

The immigrant worker from Uzbekistan entered the bank in Moscow, but when he reached the teller, she refused to serve him and she wouldn’t say why. For him and others from impoverished countries ...
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Silk Seven Plus: A new test for Russia and China in Central Asia

Seymur Mammadov is a special commentator for News.Az and the director of the international expert club EurAsiaAz. The article ...
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Russia’s Post-Imperial Anxiety and the Rhetoric of Control in Central Asia

The pro-Kremlin TV commentator Vladimir Solovyov’s latest remarks framing Central Asia as Russia’s “sphere of interest” and calling the region “our Asia” sparked a strong public response.
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Central Asia considers its own economic bloc

The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy (NLI) introduced the concept of a Silk Seven-Plus (S7+), a proposed ...