Russia and Central Asia after the Ukrainian invasion: between strategic partnership and toxicity

Abstract

Russian invasion to the Ukraine accelerated the next phase of post-Soviet dissolution. Central Asia states reacted in a different ways.

The paper focuses on two principal countries - Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Both of them attempted to distance gently from Russia, while maintaining the strategic partnership with their northern partnership.

At the same time, the invasion and certain distance from Russia stimulates the internal Central Asian co-operation.

Keywords

• Russia
• Central Asia
• conflict
• Ukraine
• international relations