The steadily improving relations between Russia and China reached a new high earlier this year when the two countries signed 29 bilateral agreements on energy, telecommunications, IT, banking and money […]
Read MoreKazakhstan has a long common border with China to the east and has been exporting Caspian oil to China’s north-western province Xinjiang by rail since the 1990s. In 2005, Kazakhstan […]
Read MoreThe developments in Kyrgyzstan in March unleashed the usual torrent of “expert” commentary. Armchair academics and parachute journalists saw the protests against the results of the Kyrgyz parliamentary elections, the […]
Read MoreKyrgyzstan – Secularism vs Islam by Ian Pryde in The World Today November 1992 Published in The World Today, the monthly journal of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, […]
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