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The final demarcation of the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border was expected to be a tremendous political victory for Kyrgyzstan. But instead of celebration, the agreement has spurred domestic unrest and intensified repression.
If the SCO is to mature as an organisation and make good on its vision of connectivity, it must also serve as a platform for conflict resolution.
Members of the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation will meet later this week in Samarkand. But the assembled leaders may struggle to find common ground in the face of regional and global crises.
European Union leaders have agreed on a landmark embargo of Russian oil that will seek to slash imports by 90 percent by the end of the year. That is bad news for Iran.
Significant attention has been paid to the impact of the Ukraine crisis and Russia’s economic contraction on Uzbekistan. But Uzbekistan’s exposure to the crisis does not just stem from the contraction of remittances coming from Russia.
Comparing the economies of Russia and Iran, it is reasonable to assume that Russia will endure its financial war.
The unfolding crisis in Ukraine offers the latest evidence of Putin’s irredentist obsessions and the ways in which those obsessions threaten the political and economic integrity of Russia’s neighbours.
◢ A free trade agreement between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) will come into force on October 27, enabling preferential trade between Iran and a trading bloc comprised of 183 million people. But a leading research body has cautioned that the “low level of Iran’s commercial complimentary” with the EEAU market will temper prospects in the short term.
