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Following the Tianjin SCO summit held in September 2025, Kyrgyzstan became the next member state to assume the chairmanship of the organisation. Shumkarbek Adilbek uulu, Director of the National Institute for Strategic Initiatives (NISI) under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, explores the initiatives and vision Bishkek brings to the table, assessing what lies ahead ...

South Asia is a region bearing much promise, and no fewer challenges. Aside from the widely covered traditional security threats—terrorism and armed conflict—at the forefront of the regional agenda are issues of gender, resource scarcity, climate change, and other complex, structural roadblocks hindering development and growth, writes Gleb Makarevich.

Among the many means of acquiring influence in contemporary global politics, educational cooperation is a form of interstate engagement that binds countries like no other. While future leaders form long-lasting ties with foreign states as they pursue their education, cooperation in the educational sphere also provides outside powers with an opportunity to influence and shape the...

The modern world is undergoing a profound transformation, accompanied by increasing uncertainty and declining global resilience. Under these conditions, the importance of regional responsibility for creating a stable and predictable development environment is growing.

The most successful area of interaction and cooperation between the Republic of Tajikistan and the Russian Federation is education, where Russian educational services are advancing most dynamically. Cooperation in the scientific sphere appears weakest, writes Muzaffar Olimov.