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Russia's Influence in Central Asia

Shyam Sundar GuptaAmity University, Gwalior, IndiaErgashev Nuriddin GayratovichKarshi State Technical University, UzbekistanTolib AvliyaqulovTermez University of Economics and Service, UzbekistanTolibjon BuriboevDilbar SagdullaevaTashkent University of Information Technologies, UzbekistanMaksuda KhajiyevaUrgench State University, UzbekistanAtaniyazov Jasurbek HamidovichTashkent State University of Economics, Tashkent, UzbekistanDeepak Gupta

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Russia's multidimensional influence in Central Asia operates through interlocking military, economic, cultural, and political mechanisms forged across three decades of post-Soviet engagement. Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, this influence has been contested as regional states recalibrate foreign policies, reassert strategic autonomy, and diversify external partnerships. Drawing on peer-reviewed scholarship published between 2021 and 2025, this chapter examines the channels through which Moscow projects power—from CSTO security architecture and Eurasian Economic Union trade dependencies to soft-power instruments including the Russian language, educational institutions, labour migration, and post-Soviet nostalgia narratives. The chapter further analyses the responses of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan to Sino-Russian competition, Western re-engagement, and the Afghan security overhang. The analysis reveals a region in strategic flux: dependent yet assertive, integrated yet diversifying, shaped by but not wholly subservient to Moscow's preferences.

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DOI: 10.4018/979-8-2600-0211-7.ch012

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