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China set up the group in Shanghai along with Russia and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as a way of building trust and easing border tensions in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. At the time its priorities were stated as fighting the “three devils” of ...

Source link www.rferl.org The deadly terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall outside Moscow has triggered a flood of unsubstantiated assessments spread widely in Russia. They include suggestions that the Islamic State (IS) militant group, which claimed responsibility, could not have carried out the attack because its attackers die for ...

Saudi Arabia defeated Tajikistan 1-0 in Riyadh on Thursday to make it three wins from three in 2026 World Cup qualification. A first-half goal from Salem Al-Dawsari confirmed the Green Falcons’ place on top of Group G, with one foot in the final round on the road to North ...

Three facts stand out as clear after Russia’s arrest of the alleged perpetrators of Friday’s appalling terrorist attack on Russia, and all three shine a light on dangers inherent in the new multipolar world we now inhabit.The first is that, before the attack, Vladimir Putin dismissed a US warning ...

Source link www.rferl.org ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- When it comes to energy bets, Tajikistan is all-in on hydropower. Having spent much of the last decade and several billion dollars building the Roghun "megadam," the project is clearly too big to fail from the point of view of Tajikistan's leadership. But ...

Washington —  The Iranian government has traced this month's twin suicide bombings in Kerman city to ethnic-Tajik fighters of the Islamic State Khorasan Province who, experts say, are "fairly small" in number but play "an important part" in the group's military activities. The Afghanistan-based branch of the Islamic State ...

Source link www.rferl.org Welcome back to the China In Eurasia briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter tracking China's resurgent influence from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. I'm RFE/RL correspondent Reid Standish and here's what I'm following right now. The Talking China In Eurasia podcast is back on September 13. Tune in ...

Source link www.rferl.org A new Chinese “super” observation station for climate and environmental monitoring has opened in Tajikistan, as China aims to advance in a developing technological arena and improve its green credentials in Central and South Asia. The station -- located in Shahritus, a town in southwestern Tajikistan ...

ISTANBUL Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin discussed economic ties and transport cooperation with his Eurasian counterparts during a meeting on Thursday between the heads of governments of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in the port city of Sochi. Mishustin first met with his Kazakh counterpart Alikhan Smailov, during which he ...

Source link www.rferl.org Welcome back to the China In Eurasia briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter tracking China’s resurgent influence from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. There will not be an episode of Talking China In Eurasia this week. I’m on the road reporting at the moment, but please stay tuned ...