China’s Long-Term Strategy vs The West’s Civil War and Short-Termism While the effectively bankrupt West is tearing itself apart and undermining its society, economy and science, China is not just getting on with it, but forging ahead. A good starting point in understanding what is happening now, with all the…
Read MoreToyota’s recall of nearly 2 million cars doesn’t look good, but any company that records its first loss some 70 years after its foundation must be world class. In late 1998, I was in Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyz Republic, when the local Mercedes dealer held a presentation of…
Read MoreMOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA-Novosti) – Last Thursday, Russia’s President Putin arrived in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, for the start of a week-long visit to Central Asia, which will focus on energy. But the visit is not just about oil and gas. Electricity generation and transmission and atomic energy…
Read MoreMOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) – Russia’s already poor image took another hit last weekend with the arrest of former world chess champion Garry Kasparov and the heavy-handed tactics of the police against demonstrators in Moscow, pictures of which went around the world. Despite the claims about the Kremlin’s…
Read MoreMOSCOW. (Ian Pryde for RIA Novosti) The inauguration of Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov on February 13 as the new president of Turkmenistan was notable for his speech announcing greater access to the Internet and mobile telephony – a welcome breath of fresh air after Saparmurat Niyazov’s outdated personality cult. But in an…
Read MoreThe developments in Kyrgyzstan in March unleashed the usual torrent of “expert” commentary. Armchair academics and parachute journalists saw the protests against the results of the Kyrgyz parliamentary elections, the flight of President Askar Akayev and the ensuing looting as the third democratic, American-inspired and anti-Russian “revolution” in the CIS,…
Read MoreBISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan – The bomb attacks in the Uzbek capital Tashkent in August once again appeared to raise the spectre of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism in Central Asia. But to see Islam as the only – or even the driving – force in Central Asia is a grave error to…
Read MoreThe Russian Crisis – Lessons and Forecasts for Kyrgyzstan by Ian Pryde – December 1998 Written by Ian Pryde in Russian for the Securities Journal of the National Commission on the Securities Market under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Issue No. 3, December 1998.
Read MoreBriefing Number 6 of the Former Soviet South Project at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, July 1996.
Read MoreFDI In Gold Mining Stimulates Kyrgyz Economy by Ian Pryde Special to Финансовые Известия (Financial Izvestiya), Moscow, a joint publication of The Financial Times and Izvestiya. Written in Russian and published on 6 July 1995.
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