Khusanboy Kotibjonov

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[Khusanboy Kotibjonov @kotibjonov]

for a second, i thought J.R.R Tolkien dropped a new book.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Had a fantastic time moderating a discussion with @FukuyamaFrancis about his new book to a sold out crowd tonight at Keplers. It’s a terrific book! Buy it.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

we are in a different world now

[Khusanboy Kotibjonov @kotibjonov]

Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan exchange border land plots

https://t.co/QJHmDd2VdS

[FIFA @FIFAcom]

Passion from the Uzbekistan fans during their national anthem 🥹🇺🇿

[James Heale @JAHeale]

On Friday, the Ukraine War will have lasted 1569 days - longer than the First World War

[Bakhti Nishanov @b_nishanov]

Uzbekistan is, of course, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, Silk Road, cradle of millennia long civilizations but it’s also this. Also, love the Ukraine connection — Shevchenko, as in Taras, street.

[Khusanboy Kotibjonov @kotibjonov]

Kyrgyzstan wins seat on UN Security Council for first time ever

https://t.co/fYcQccbcjy

[Alexander Baunov @baunov]

On May 9, Victory Day — undeniably one of Russia’s major national holidays — it is worth remembering how wrong it is to equate today’s Russian army with the Soviet army of World War II, something both supporters of the current regime and some of its opponents are inclined to do.

And not only because this comparison, when made by some opponents of the current war, ends up granting its supporters exactly what they want: to be seen as “the same army.”

But above all because it is simply not true.

Back then, it was the army of a country defending itself. It drew people from a much broader social base. It was a genuinely national army, far more diverse in composition — from collective farmers and ideological communist internationalists to physics students, and to nobles and peasants who had not yet forgotten the dignity that Bolshevik terror had only recently taken from them; communists and anti-communists alike, supporters and opponents of Soviet ideology.

What united them was not a leader’s geopolitical fantasies (those either came later or remained a background inheritance from the past), nor money or vanity, but the basic reality of humiliation, fear, pain, and death brought by the invasion of a foreign army whose leaders had freed it from the restraints of common human morality. To stop it, they had to go as far and fight as long as necessary.

This stands in stark contrast to today’s Russian invasion army, fighting a war of conquest for money under the false banner of “defending the motherland” — despite the fact that no one had attacked it.

[Старый Кринжан @kairzhan79]

Природа Кыргызстана красивее, чем природа Казахстана. Это моё личное мнение.

[Edward Lucas @edwardlucas]

I'm sure that this is interesting, but I just flinch at the "post-Soviet" category. The USSR collapsed 35 years ago. It ruled eastern Europe for 45 years. At what point does the label fade? We don't talk about "post-Nazi" for countries that were occupied by the Third Reich, or "Post-Hapsburg".

[Khusanboy Kotibjonov @kotibjonov]

Italy’s former ambassador to 🇺🇿 allegedly sold Schengen visas to 🇷🇺 Russian citizens for up to €16,000 each, while the EU was actively restricting Russian travel over the Ukraine war. At least 95 Russians entered Europe through this scheme.

https://t.co/wALmc1wZxa

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Ukraine is: ordinary people doing extraordinary things

[Khusanboy Kotibjonov @kotibjonov]

Research methods prof was on point

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

being wrong is the best way to get cited a lot

[Khusanboy Kotibjonov @kotibjonov]

As Central Asia is trending on X as the most discussed travel destination, I am here with a video of me horse riding through the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. With my friends from all around the world.

[Evan A. Feigenbaum @EvanFeigenbaum]

With due respect, I oversaw U.S. policy in Central Asia for part of the Bush 43 second term and we were most certainly "dealing with the region on its own terms." What has changed is not "American naïveté" because, in fact, we and the international financial institutions were the ones wishing for cooperation among regional states more than the regional states themselves were. What has changed, therefore, is the dynamic within and among some of the countries - most notably, in Uzbekistan because, to put it bluntly, Islam Karimov had literally no interest in promoting regional cooperation on water, agriculture, borders, customs, or anything else. And that was not even the only problem. Dynamics among Central Asians are going to be the driver, not American policy. And there is not a lot in current American policy that is even remotely "new."

[Khusanboy Kotibjonov @kotibjonov]

I actually love how Central Asia is slowly becoming romanticized by travelers who come for mountain hikes, horse riding, and remote landscapes.

[Rogue | Frontier Philosophy @RoguesPhilo]

POV: You sold it all to ride horses with nomads in Central Asia.

I organze the longest horseback tour in the world - more than 400 km with eagle hunters, nomads, and acrobats.

Message to join our tribe from August 1 - 10.

Here's what your life could look like:

[Khusanboy Kotibjonov @kotibjonov]

Belousov at the SCO meeting in Bishkek: foreign military bases in Central Asia are a red line for Russia.

https://t.co/WVKxXf0Ojz

[Temur Umarov 马铁木 @TUmarov]

Central Asia outpaces other regions regarding the volume of foreign nationals recruited into the Russian armed forces in Ukraine, currently exceeding 10,000 individuals.

[Khusanboy Kotibjonov @kotibjonov]

@Nick_Castillo_ For Central Asia and Azerbaijan, there has arguably never been a U.S. administration easier to work with than Trump’s.