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7 years ago For some reason the event for the 2010 Kyrgyz Uzbek ethnic clashes is being triggered right from the very start of the 1992 bookmark. I don't know why this is happening and I've tried to fix this issue but to no avail. Are you able to help me fix this issue.
After reading on Aldawolf 's comment on the Nigerian breakup issue and reading some articles on the geopolitical landscape of Central Asia I would like to improve the political landscape of Central Asia by adding various events and border disputes. Here are my points I will discuss about.
1.Today Russia stills holds considerable influence over it's former colonies in Central Asia however it is declining as the Russian population of certain areas of Central Asia like Northern Kazakhstan are migrating back to Russia and their former Central Asian colonies are beginning the process of derussifciation which has damaged the cultural infleunce Russia has on Central Asia by the opening of indigenous language schools and the closure of Russian language schools. The situation with the Western Great Powers is similar although they had a brief upsurge in influence in that area due to the collapse of the USSR and the invasion of Afghanistan by the US in 2001, it is declining today as a result of a gradual withdrawal of foreign military personnel from Afghanistan and the closure of the US owned airbase Manas’ Transit Center in 2014 it's last military base in Central Asia. China and Turkey however are rising powers within Central Asia. Turkey has rapidly expanded it's influence with the creation of the Turkic Council in 2009 and the opening of hundreds of Turkish schools across Central Asia, with the failed coup attempt by Kemalist officials in the Turkish Army in 2016 and increasing authoritarianism in Turkey by Erdogan, Turkey may actually turn its back on the West and carve out an independent sphere of influence around the Middle East and the Turkic speaking portions of Central Asia. China has already made massive inroads into Central Asia with the creation of the new Silk Road which has streghtened economic ties with countries of Central Asia, in the near future it is very possible that China will reclaim its former influence in Central Asia after it was lost with the defeat of the forces of the Tang Dynasty by the Abbasid Caliphate during the Battle of Talas in 751 AD.
2.In the aftermath of the dissolution of the USSR the countries of Central Asia are becoming more unstable due to several reasons. Ethnic tensions have skyrocketed in Central Asia after the Soviet Union collapsed, the current Central Asian borders in that were drawn up the 1920s by Stalin has created nightmarish and confusing borders that have destroyed old political administrative boundaries that have existed for centuries (Khivan Khanate etc), splitting up peoples on the basis of ethnicity rather than linguistics (for example Tajik speaking Uzbeks living in Samarkand in Uzbekistan).The worst example of this could be found in the Ferghana Valley which is split between Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgzstan, a highly populous and heavily religious region with a high birth rate it is expected its population will increase dramatically which will put pressure on the already depleting resources of Central Asia like water due to Climate Change. This has created hotbeds for Islamist rebel groups in areas like the Pamir Mountains and the Ferghana Valley. When the Soviet Union existed, these problems did not matter as there was no border restrictions between the various republics of the USSR the Central Asian republics had a sort of interdependence with each other trading essential resources like oil and water to each other. With the border restrictions today some countries in Central Asia like Uzbekistan have shifted focus to trading with countries out of Central Asia this has devastated the economies and services of countries like Kyrgyzstan which has led to revolution in 2010 in Kyrgyzstan that successfully ousted its president and many hundreds of people were killed. This revolution was caused by a lack of basic services such as water and electricity. Sources http://thediplomat.com/2016/11/donald-trump-and-central-asias-great-game/ https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/central-asia-complexities-fergana-valley http://thediplomat.com/2016/08/central-asias-lukewarm-pivot-to-china/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyz_Revolution_of_2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnQeeHwWtFU http://www.rethinkinstitute.org/turkey-viewed-central-asia/ https://www.loc.gov/rr/business/asia/CentralAsia/china.html https://www.eurodialogue.eu/Five-Scenarios-for-the-Future-Borders-of-Central-Asia