Associate staff @UCL Institute of Education. SFHEA. PhD @ExeterIAIS @UniofExeter. MPhil @IDS_UK @SussexUni. Member @CentralAsiaNet. Opinions strictly my own
Oct 16, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
This statement tends to be taken out of context which is dangerous. Rahmon is NOT standing up to Putin in this speech & will not. There is NO desire of him to claim autonomy of the region from Imperialist Russia. His demand to be respected has been misinterpreted. Rather, he🧵1/9
attempts to not only reassert his [political] loyalty to Russia as the only “viable strategic partner”but to assert centrality of TJK in CA as strategic economic partner. This assertion follows his attempt to assert political dominance through Tajik aggression in Kyrgyzstan. He
