Центральная Азия. Риски транзита в стареющих режимах

This chapter is devoted to the study of performative solidarities (Alexander 2006, 2008) which became an important part of the discourses on identity and historic heritage in the post-Soviet countries and the process of value change. The mechanism of emergence of such discourses and their course and consequences are studied in Russia and Estonia.

Added: Oct 8, 2013

New Bukhara: An “Island” Of Russia In Central Asia

Почекаев Р. Ю. Law. LAW. Высшая школа экономики, 2018. № WP BRP 86/LAW/2018.

This paper is devoted to the characteristics of the city of New Bukhara, the “capital” of the Russian settlements in the Bukharan Emirate. It was originally established as a station on the Trans-Caspian railway but soon transformed into the Russian business and cultural center in the Emirate. It had specific status being a Russian enclave in the Bukharan Emirate which was de jure an independent state. However, the information on this city is contradictory. Some visitors stated in their notes and memoirs that it was a large city with well-developed infrastructure, others characterized it as a little settlement, “a poky hole” without any common features with towns of Russia and Europe. According to other materials New Bukhara was the real administrative center of Russian settlements in the Bukharan Emirate, while others state that it was only the residence of the Russian diplomatic representative in the Emirate. The author analyzes legal documents, other official information, notes from travelers and another contemporaries to establish a view on the real New Bukhara, to answer the question on status of New Bukhara in the Bukharan Emirate and in the Russian Empire.

Added: Dec 24, 2018

Материалы V Конвента Российской ассоциации международных исследований. Мировая политика: взгляд из будущего

Братерский М. В., Голунов С., Зеличенко А. и др. Т. 5: Будущее стабильности и безопасности в регионе Центральной Азии. М.: МГИМО-Университет, 2009.

Added: Feb 10, 2013

Трудовые мигранты из Центральной Азии в Москве: вопросы адаптации

Гаспаришвили А. Т., Смоленцева А. Ю. Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Социология. 2012. № 2. С. 56-64.

The article is based on the results of the survey of migrant workers from Central Asia in Moscow and Moscow region. One of the key issues of the study was the degree of adaptation of migrants to life in the capital. The article discusses the issue both from the point of view of experts on labor migration and of the migrants themselves.

Added: Aug 19, 2012

Материнская смертность в Восточной Европе и Центральной Азии

Сакевич В. И., Денисов Б. П. Демоскоп Weekly. 2012. С. 529-530.

Added: Dec 10, 2012

Сибирь, Центральная Азия и Дальний Восток: Актуальные вопросы истории и международных отношений. Четвертые научные чтения памяти Е.М. Залкинда: Материалы международной научной конференции 22 мая 2009 г.

Барнаул: Азбука, 2009.

Added: Jul 23, 2015

Two Decades of Post-Soviet and Post-Socialist Stateness

Ilyin M., Meleshkina E. Y., Stukal D. REGION: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. 2012. Vol. 1. No. 2. P. 177-211.

The collapse of the socialist system prompted the former USSR countries to “re-invent” their stateness. The paper focuses on factors that impede or smooth stateness transformations in post-Soviet countries. First, the paper examines internal and external factors of state formation in selected countries. Next, it introduces empirical research tools and empirical findings that present alternative patterns of stateness and outcomes of state formation. The paper concludes with a detailed review of certain cases that may be considered prototypes of state formation for post-Soviet countries.

Added: Aug 30, 2012

Социальная ответственность государства в политических практиках государств Центральной Азии

Медушевский Н., Шишкина А. Р. М.: ЛЕНАНД, 2014.

Added: Jun 18, 2014

“WATER LAW” AS AN INSTRUMENT OF RUSSIAN IMPERIAL POLICY IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN KHANATES

Pochekaev R. Y. Law. LAW. Высшая школа экономики, 2017. No. WP BRP 73/LAW/2017.

Water has always been an important resource for Central Asian states and peoples. Different rulers at different times used water, and access to it, as an instrument of political and even military influence. When the Russian Empire expanded into Central Asia, seizing substantial parts of three central Asian khanates (Bukhara, Khiva and Khoqand) and established its own protectorate over these states, its also found that water was one of the most effective means to control the rulers and peoples of Central Asia. The use of water and irrigation policy as an instrument of rule was effectively used by the Russian Empire in its relations with the Central Asian khanates and this has already been the subject of investigation. This paper analyses the legal regulation of water use and the irrigation policy of the Russian Empire in Turkestan in order to influence the Bukharan Emirate and the Khivan Khanate during the epoch of the Russian protectorate (1870s–1910s). The paper demonstrates how the internal “water law” was a starting point in Russian policy towards Bukhara and Khiva, and shows that each subsequent stage was closely connected to the evolution of the “water law” in the Russian Turkestan. The sources are official documents (including legal acts) of the Russian Empire, correspondence of Russian and Central Asian statesmen, memoirs of contemporaries and the notes of Russian visitors to khanates (diplomats, engineers, etc.) who participated in the realization of Russian water policy in Bukhara and Khiva and could estimate its effectiveness.

Added: Mar 7, 2017

The New Persian Marriage Contract in the Syriac Manuscript from Turfan

Muraviev A. In bk.: The History Behind the Languages. Essays of Turfan Forum on Old Languges of the Silk Road ([語言背後的歷史—西域古典語言學高峰論壇論文集]). Shanghai: Academia Turfanica, 2013. P. 160-164.

The publication of the New Persian text of a marriage contract found in the Syriac Manuscript from Turfan 12 c. written in Syriac letters

Added: Mar 13, 2015

Interstate relations in Central Asia

Kazantsev A. In bk.: Eurasia on the Edge: Managing Complexity. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018. P. 197-212.

Interstate relationships in Central Asia are on the edge of crisis for decades. Therefore, here we see one of the examples of “Eurasia on the edge” concept. In this region of the Post-Soviet world the need for managing complexity is, probably, most acute. Below, I will first analyze from theoretical viewpoint combination of state weakness, interstate conflicts and failed intraregional cooperation in Central Asia. After that water and energy conflict between the states will be studied as a key determinant of interstate relations in Central Asia. I will first describe water and energy regime in Central Asia in the late Soviet period, then I will proceed with analysis of the energy and water issues after the dissolution of the USSR. I will depict the clash of national policies of the New Independent states of the region to overcome water-energy problem. This analysis will help us to understand the reasons of failed attempts to establish regional international water and energy regime.

Added: Oct 10, 2019