By Farkhod Tolipov
June 2nd, 2016, The CACI Analyst
A few weeks before the April 2-5 fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh between Azerbaijan and Armenia, a border crisis occurred between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan on March 18-26. Some observers connected these two events as links in the same chain. Indeed, both cases revolve around so-called frozen conflicts in the post-Soviet space; where one of the conflicting sides is a CSTO member and the other is not; and where speculations proliferate of a hidden Russian hand in both the instigation and mediation of the clashes. The two conflicts can be seen as a by-product of the same process – the continuing divergence of the former single Soviet space.
- Central Asia
- South Caucasus
- Geopolitics
- Nagorno Karabakh conflict
- Azerbaijan
- Armenia
- Uzbekistan
- Kyrgyzstan
- CSTO
- Former Soviet Union
- Ethnic violence
- Russia
- Russian arms sales Azerbaijan
- OSCE Minsk Group