NAILYA SHAKIROVA

The elections to Oliy Majlis (the Parliament) of Uzbekistan will be held in December 2009. Five political parties are going to take part in the election campaign.

ANDREY GROZIN

Over the past year the U.S. and EU representatives have actively interacted with Tashkent. Uzbekistan’s foreign policy is the same as that of its neighbors – the Central Asian countries are guided by the much talked-about "multivector" policy.  

ROGER N MCDERMOTT

Current re-engagement between the U.S., NATO and Uzbekistan may be characterised as officially cautious and low key.

ABDUMANNOB POLAT

In the light of Tashkent's reticence and reluctance to disclose its information on the events in Andijan, independent assessments has taken on added value.

ALEXEI MAKARKIN

Until recently, Uzbek President Islam Karimov was considered a U.S. partner in Central Asia. His country was a member of GUUAM, a bloc believed to be an alternative to Russian influence in the post-Soviet space. In 2001, Uzbekistan hosted an American military base, officially to help with the counter-terrorist operation in Afghanistan.

ALEXEI MALASHENKO

So, what really happened in mid-May in the Uzbek town of Andijan? It is still not known for sure how many people were killed in the riot. Nor it is known who had organized it and why. A correct forecast for the future of Uzbekistan and the rest of Central Asia largely depends on whether we can answer these questions correctly.

ALEXEI MAKARKIN

DINA MALYSHEVA

Unrest in Andizhan (Uzbekistan) can destabilize the situation in Central Asia, said Dina Malysheva, a leading researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

IGOR KIRSANOV

The rebellion in the Uzbek city Andizhan situated in the Ferghana Valley again made the subject of the regimes change on the post-Soviet area of extreme interest. Following Kyrgyzstan another and quite expected crisis broke out in the neighbor Uzbekistan. Andizhan events cast doubt on strength of the authoritarian regimes in Central Asia whose legitimate change is impossible in the modern conditions.

ALEXEI MAKARKIN

The bloody seizure of the prison and several administrative buildings in Andizhan, Uzbekistan, was most probably planned with the assistance of radical foreign Islamic organizations, Alexei Makarkin, deputy general director of the Russian Center of Political Technologies, told Gazeta.

Now, any crime is taken as something like “pleasing to God” - a blasphemy as it may seem. Anyway, terrorism, as a rule, is considered to be Islamic and the terrorists are to be Allah’s warriors. Not all confessions arouse such a mistrust, and this only confirms that the war of adjectives exists and it is skillfully instigated either by stupidity or improvidence.

Russian leadership would not be condemned for the peacemaking mission in Central Asia

For the fourth day we are watching how the Uzbek government destroys the Uzbek citizens.