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James welcomes back to the program Christoph Germann of the New Great Game Round-up to discuss Kyrgyzstan’s recent decision to cancel a two decade old US cooperation treaty. We talk about the ostensible reason for this rift and what might really be behind it, as well as the ramifications of this cancellation for USAID and other US-backed organizations in the country.
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The New Great Game Round-Up #106
Kyrgyzstan Says Terminated Treaty With U.S. Will Hit Aid Agency
Fears For Safety Of Uzbek Activist Detained Amid 2010 Kyrgyzstan Riots
US Gives Human Rights Award to Jailed Kyrgyz Activist
Kyrgyzstan Cancels Treaty Because U.S. ‘Sought Chaos’
Kyrgyz, Russian Media Embrace New U.S. Embassy Conspiracy Theory
U.S. National Endowment for Democracy Becomes Russia’s First ‘Undesirable Organization’
Why Russia Shut Down National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Fronts
American NGO to withdraw from Russia after being put on ‘patriotic stop list’
Atambayev: Some Day, Russian Military Will Have To Leave Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan Becomes 5th Member of Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union
China’s NGO Law: Countering Western Soft Power and Subversion
Washington’s Central Asian Strategy: “Color Revolution Expert” Dispatched to Kyrgyzstan
Scandal in Kyrgyzstan After Protest Organizer Seen With US Diplomat Richard Miles
US Sends Mysterious 150 Tons of ‘Diplomatic Mail’ to Embassy in Kyrgyzstan
Thanks! Nothing to add on the geopolitical level.
However, on another level, Jame’s fOSSa 2013 suit + Christoph’s haircut = Klaus Nomi! :-p
Sorry… I’m out :-p