Central Asia

These Western traditions flow from the of achievement for all peoples and all nations, Renaissance, the Reformation and the Enlightenment — the to the end that every individual and every organ intellectual foundations of the modern West. [...] At the a lingua franca, the Russified culture of the elite — and, same time, the ideological Western international spotlights since the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, a tsunami of and microscopes illuminate and magnify the problems; propaganda on the Russian broadcast media that blanket thus, the image of the “Ickystans.” The leaders of Central Central Asia — Russian near-absolute dominance th [...] Russia already has border Central Asia.4 The fear of ISIS, and of other radical a permanent military presence in Central Asia at the Kant organizations such as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Airfield outside Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan and with its 201st and the Islamic Jihad Union, is partly responsible for Motorized Rifle Division at three locations in Tajikistan: the continued slap-down of any op [...] To increasingly capable of preventing the flow across borders implement these policy goals, Washington has four critical of contraband, including narcotics and the components areas of cooperation and concentration in Central Asia: of weapons of mass destruction, while facilitating the security cooperation, economic ties, promotion of human passage of legitimate travellers and enhancing trade and r [...] The Washington focuses its assistance, as it does elsewhere interests of one sometimes conflict with the interests of in the world, on improving and modernizing health another: Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have mostly been at care and education and on alleviating the worst forms loggerheads since the Tajikistan civil war of the mid-1990s.