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The US has secured a transit route through Uzbekistan

News has broke that the US has signed a deal with Uzbekistan for allowing the transit of non-lethal material through the country and into Afghanistan, with which it shares a border.

Interestingly, Kyrgyzstan is now dropping hints that the US can remain at the Manas air base. However, with the increasing political turmoil there, including massive protests around the country calling for President Bakiyev’s resignation, one should approach any breaking news out of Kyrgyzstan very gingerly.

 

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Elina Galperin

Elina Galperin was born in Minsk, Belarus and grew up in Brooklyn, NY. After graduating from Stuyvesant High School in 2004, she attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she majored in History and Russian Studies. After finishing her senior thesis on the politics of education among the Kazakhs in the late Imperial period, she graduated in February 2008. In September 2010, she received a Masters of Arts Degree in History, having passed qualifying exams on the Russian and Ottoman empires in the 18th and 19th centuries. In Fall 2011, she advanced to doctoral candidacy, having passed exams in four fields: Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire, Soviet Union, Mongol Empire, focusing on administrative practices and empire-building.

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