Uzbekistan has always been of interest to the United States because it is a “key state” bordering all countries in the region as Zbigniew Brzezinski put it in his book “The Grand Chessboard.” With the beginning of the “war on terror” in 2001, the USA leased a military base in Karshi Khanabad in Uzbekistan. However, relations between Tashkent and Washington…
Uzbekistan
10.11.2020
What is behind the Strategic Partnership between the US and Uzbekistan?
Recently, reports in the media can be encountered more frequently about the active measures taken by the United States to develop relations with Uzbekistan. For example, in just the first few days of November, the US Trade Representation (USTR) announced that the process had been completed of verifying Uzbekistan’s compliance…
17.09.2020
Uzbekistan to Throw in Its Lot with the EAEU
The discussions that have been going on for more than a year on Uzbekistan’s entry into the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) are coming to a logical conclusion. The topic of the integration of Tashkent into the EAEU was loudly discussed in October 2019, during the visit of the Speaker of the Federation Council of Russia Valentina Matvienko to the Uzbek…
14.09.2014
Uzbekistan and its future
Uzbek President Islam Karimov is dead-set on smashing any stirrings of revolution and protecting the country from both foreign and…
18.01.2014
Implications of CIS Free Trade Zone Expansion in Central Asia
The last week of 2013 saw Uzbekistan - the most populous Central Asian nation - become the latest country to…
25.04.2013
Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and the Railway Projects
Washington is actively trying to take advantage of the transportation deadlock that Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan found themselves in after the…
03.03.2013
Islam Karimov’s Currency Reform
Uzbekistan’s rules for buying and selling foreign currencies changed in early February. President Islam Karimov approved a proposal by the…
