RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA (STAGES OF BUILDING RELATIONS)

2019 - March

With the decease of confrontation of two superpowers, the transition to a new system of international relations began, which posed complex strategic questions for humanity about the nature of changes in the world and about the dominant factors of power. They will play a major role in ensuring stability and security in the future. The collapse of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and a number of other countries weakened the political and economic situation and contributed to the formation of the Eurasian “arc of instability” covering the Balkans, the Middle East, Transcaucasia, South and Central Asia, where new sovereign states appeared.

After the geopolitical “collapse” of the early 1990s, other cultures rushed into the ideological vacuum in Central Asia. An attempt was made to introduce elements of the Atlantic, European civilization here, which caused opposition and aggravated the problems of the transit countries of the region. The geopolitical status of Central Asia has changed, here comes the clash of interests of world and regional powers. The causes are known – the risks of a global energy crisis (due to the depletion of hydrocarbon reserves) and the failure to search for alternative sources of energy; the growing threat of the spread of extremism and international terrorism; drug business. These global challenges of our time reinforce the interest of outside world in Central Asia. In a new world, Central Asian states found themselves in a zone of instability.

Today in Central Asia a new international political space is formed where Russia and the states of the region determine the spheres of interests, develop strategies of foreign policy and national security, make changes to the system. In recent years, Moscow has paid more attention not only to cooperation in the field of regional security, but also to integration in the economic sphere.