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Central Asia: the view from Russia
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Stability is a buzzword for Central Asia watchers. Regional governments and foreign powers swear by it, and seek to use this alleged common interest to retain order in a fragile and often dysfunctional part of the world.
Yet this apparently shared vision has not (yet) led to any major cooperative effort to get Central Asia on the right track.