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ALMATY (TCA) — China’s ambitious plan to install a hardware network, in which rail and road links are crucial, to get its economic clout stretch all across the mega-continent straight to western Europe looks at three main strings: across Siberia in the north, Central Asia in the middle, and the Indian Ocean’s coastal states in the south. Most of the headaches encountered in the process concern the middle route. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Today, east-west rail links are considered at least as important as maritime power. And though at varying speed according to working area, spades are being put into the ground as construction work proceeds, thereby increasing investors’ trust that something is actually being done with their money except paperwork. Continue reading
LONDON (TCA) — The latest shift in Kazakhstan’s highest echelons of state power has almost immediately led to speculations concerning the eventuality that the head of state, now 76, but apparently still in good health as opposed to his ailing peer in Uzbekistan, is preparing the ground for his succession. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The death of President Karimov is watched by International media and all Central Asia republics, as well as such powers as Russia, China and the United States, due to the fact that what will happen next in Uzbekistan may outline a future scenario and alliance of the entire Central Asia. The following article is an excerpt from what has been written by Rene Cagnat, an expert in Central Asia, who for many years served as the military attache at the French Embassy in Tashkent. Now Mr. Cagnat is living between Paris and Bishkek, and the following excerpt was translated from French into English by The Times of Central Asia. The full article in French can be read here Continue reading
LONDON (TCA) — Will the death of Uzbekistan’s longstanding ruler cause an “Uzbek Spring” with room for more public input and a less oppressive state apparatus, without hollowing out the state itself? As things look, the disappearance of one of the last remaining “Soviet heirs” and his replacement is an affair to be settled within a very narrow circle of men-behind-the-throne. That does not mean, however, that things on a slightly longer term could not change for the better. Continue reading
ALMATY (TCA) — Kazakhstan turned out to be the last Soviet republic to formally declare its independence on December 16, 1991, almost half a year after the bell for the USSR had tolled in Moscow. Although stagnant in the political domain, Kazakhstan made spectacular economic progress into the new century. But it remains exposed to setbacks as weak spots now appear to have remained in place. Continue reading
