{"id":210485,"date":"2025-11-18T11:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=210485"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:16:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:16:25","slug":"central-asian-states-and-azerbaijan-challenge-russias-traditional-role-in-the-region-stratfor-writes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/210485\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Asian states and Azerbaijan challenge Russia\u2019s traditional role in the region, Stratfor writes"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Uzbekistan&rsquo;s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has officially proposed the creation of a new regional organization, named the &ldquo;Central Asian Community.&rdquo; The five Central Asian states &mdash; Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan &mdash; have also welcomed Azerbaijan as a full participant in their consultative meeting format, <a href=\"https:\/\/worldview.stratfor.com\/situation-report\/central-asia-azerbaijan-azerbaijan-joins-central-asian-push-formal-bloc-counter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stratfor<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Mirziyoyev&rsquo;s proposal to create an official alliance, coupled with Azerbaijan&rsquo;s inclusion, represents a clear and ambitious step toward institutionalizing a regional framework independent of Moscow. The move challenges Russia&rsquo;s traditional role as the primary guarantor of the region&rsquo;s economic and security architecture and aims to accelerate the development of the Trans-Caspian Middle Corridor. By building their own security and economic structures, the member states are increasingly relying on one another, rather than on Moscow, to maintain regional stability.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal comes at a time when the region, traditionally under Russia&rsquo;s sphere of influence, is being actively pursued by both the West and China.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uzbekistan&rsquo;s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has officially proposed the creation of a new regional organization, named the &ldquo;Central Asian Community.&rdquo; The five Central Asian states &mdash; Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan &mdash; have also welcomed Azerbaijan as a full participant in their consultative meeting format, Stratfor writes. Mirziyoyev&rsquo;s proposal to create an official alliance, coupled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":210426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210487,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210485\/revisions\/210487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}