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The article is devoted to the methodological approaches that reveal the essence of the term «Central Asia». After the collapse of the USSR, five Post-Soviet States located in the center of Eurasia, adopted the international name of the region «Central Asia» instead of the soviet term «Central Asia a...

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The article considers the questions connected with the strategy of the U.S. in Central Asia, which has long-term character. In this connection, the author notes that successive governments of the USA, the American political and expert community, business circles traditionally in the last twenty year...

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The article evaluates the imbalance of water resources, actual concurrence and cooperation prospects of Central Asia states

Economic cooperation between China and Central Asia is developing successfully, though some unforeseen difficulties emerged in the process of regional integration. The main problem China faces currently is its image factor i.e. the problem of perception of China by the countries and peoples of Centr...

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The article deals with the features of public diplomacy resource’ application in US foreign policy in Central Asia. The author claims that American public diplomacy which has been actively working in the region since the collapse of the USSR appears to be an important instrument of achievement of no...

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U.S.recently launched strategy of rebalancing to Asia worsens the atmosphere forChina’s energy security and increases the risks for energy transportation from Africa and theMiddle East. The diversification of energy sources is a reasonable strategic choice, so the importance of the Eurasian continen...

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The following article should not be dismissed as yet another attempt to construct a renewed round ofrevisionism in history. On the contrary, it aims to explore the possibility of scaling down the dominant Eurocentric epistemology that served as a basis for a stereotypical frame of knowledge about Ce...

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This paper is about branding goods and services and viewing China’s reference to OBOR, a new regional trade initiative, as the “accidental” branding of its efforts to institute an entirely new model of development in various places along the ancient Silk Road, as well as a number of places that fall...

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The region historically referred to as Soviet Central Asia includes the 5 Central Asian Republics (CARs) of the Former Soviet Union (FSU): Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Their political status changed drastically when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and they beca...

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This article demonstrates that ethnicity itself didn’t play a significant role to cause conflicts in Osh in 1990 and 2010, but was rather a side effect or a catalyst produced inevitably by political struggle in the country. The Osh conflict in 1990 occurred at the weakening of the USSR's instit...

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China’s steadily growing mineral resource requirements actualize its need to ensure continuous access to a reliable resource base. Central Asia with its ample fuel and energy raw materials, ore deposits, and renewables is viewed a viable option in this regard. The article provides analysis of the PR...

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The article gives an overview of studied integration strategies of migrants from Central Asia; factors defining choices of migration trajectories are described; a question of the necessity to study educational strategies of young people from Central Asian countries is raised

By male genitalia and external characters as well as by the mtDNA COI sequence, the species from mountain of Central Asia reported earlier as Mecyna lutulentalis (Lederer, 1858) now is identified as Mecyna salangalis Amsel, 1970. The species inhabits dry steppe slopes of Hindukush, West Pamir, Cent...

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Central Asia is critical to China’s security and development. Although China repeatedly underlines the necessity and urgency of establishing a good neighborhood with Central Asian countries, it has not released any strategies and specific policies, at least not explicitly. This article examines Cent...

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The study provides the results of AIV surveillance in Central Asia region during 2003-2009. We have analyzed. 2604 samples from wild birds. These samples were collected in Kazakhstan. (279), Mongolia (650), and Russia (1675). Isolated viruses from samples collected in Mongolia (13 isolates) and. in...

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Changes in the extent of glaciers and rates of glacier termini retreat in the eastern Terskey-Alatoo Range, the Tien Shan Mountains, Central Asia have been evaluated using the remote sensing techniques. Changes in the extent of 109 glaciers between 1965, 1990 and 2003 have been estimated through the...

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In the 40s of the last century, J. Wolski proposed a thesis, still dominant in historiography, arguing that the story of Arrian which reached us thanks to his work “Parthica” that the Arsacid dynasty, the founder of Parthian state, descended from the Achaemenids, has a fictional origin. According t...

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The resource-sharing mechanism, which ensured sufficiency and reliability of energy supplies within the Central Asian energy system (CAES) collapsed soon after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Isolationist energy policies, both in terms of full self-reliance and self-control, without the esta...

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In the 40s of the last century, J. Wolski proposed a thesis, still dominant in historiography, arguing that the story of Arrian which reached us thanks to his work “Parthica” that the Arsacid dynasty, the founder of Parthian state, descended from the Achaemenids, has a fictional origin. According t...

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The aim of the study was to improve monitoring of natural foci of rabies based on the use of modern technologies of cartographic analysis.Materials and methods. A retrospective study was carried out on the data of official registration of rabies in the Trans-Baikal Territory (Eastern Trans-Baikal Re...

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