SAPRA India Foundation: Central Asia Research Area

Central Asia Research Area

Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to Iran and Afghanistan in the south. In the modern context, Central Asia consists of the five former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. This region constitutes one of the core research areas of the SAPRA India Foundation. This region is critical for India's medium and long term future. How this region develops in the years ahead is going to have a major impact on India's long term security. The Foundation is committed to studying and monitoring events in this region.

Kazakh World Religious Meet Calls for Rejection of Terrorism

May 2010
World Religious Meet
Academics, clerics and leaders from 60 nations, including India, recently gathered in Astana, the Kazakhstan capital, for a global conference of faith and civilizations where they deliberated on prospects of peaceful coexistence among the world's religions amid growing extremism and violence. The Congress of World and Traditional Religions is a bold reminder to the world that people of different faiths and ethnic backgrounds can and should live together in peace, its organizers said.
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Central Asia Articles Listing

This section contains a listing of some significant articles and reports on Central Asia written by various experts on the region. These documents are not available on this site but are linked to their parent websites. Our researchers often require listing of key articles for background reference and study. We felt this might help the academic community in general. WE also invite readers to submit articles and links for inclusion in this section.
List of articles.

Links to Central Asian Resources

List of a few important on-line resources.

The Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhastan in New Delhi, India

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Central Asian Leaders at a glance:
Kazakhstan: President Nursultan A. Nazarbaev
Uzbekistan: President Islam Karimov
Kyrgyzstan: President Kurmanbek Bakiyev
Tajikistan: President Emomali Rakhmonov
Turkmenistan: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov

Country Profiles

Check this section for updated country profiles of the Central Asian Republics (CARs). Apart from regular country profiles, we also plan to provide economic and military profiles compiled from published sources.

Weekly News Archives

Our research bureau used to track events in Central Asia on a daily basis. We have uploaded some of our archived news reports from the years 2002, 2003 and 2004. They could be of some use to researchers and could be searched using Google.
Browse news archives.