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CONTenTS Project manager al MaZBEK aTaMBayEv Denis Tyurin 4 FrOM sECUriTy TO rEGiONal iNTEGraTiON Editor in chief CHiNara asaNOva Tatyana Sinitsyna 5 KyrGyZsTaN, MOUNTaiNOUs LAND OF ALA-TOO… Deputy Editor in Chief Kirill BarsKy Maxim Krans THE sHaNGHai COOPEraTiON OrGaNiZaTiON aHEaD OF BisHKEK sUMMiT 8 Chairman of the Editorial Board Kirill Barsky sUlTaN ZHaNaiDarOv 14 iNTErNaTiONal sUMMEr sCHOOl OF PUBliC DiPlOMaCy Editorial Board Alexey Vlasov DMiTry MEZENTsEv Sergey Luzjanin 16 sCO FOrUM: CrUCial, EsTaBlisHED PUBliC iNsTiTUTiON Alexander Lukin iriNa DuboviTsKaya Editor of the English version 20 CENTral ASIA: sECUriTy THrOUGH iNTEGraTiON Natalia Latysheva ElPar saliMOv Chinese version 22 UZBEKisTaN: WaGiNG War ON ILLEGal POPPy Center KitaEast Design, layout Mikhail KirillOv 24 sCO rEaDy TO COUNTEraCT NEW THrEaTs Oleg Elkin Technical support sTaNislav MaKsiMOv Natalia Maltseva 26 PEaCE MissiON AS DEMONsTraTiON OF FOrCE Worked on the production of aNDrEi ilyasHENKO Anastasia Kirillova 28 rUssia – CHiNa: sTraTEGiC ParTNErsHiP Elena Gagarina Olga Kozlova valEry alEKsaNDrOv Vladimir Gorbanovsky 30 iraN: NEW PrEsiDENT aND NEW POliCy? Nina Dorokhova Juri Tavrovsky Dmitry Kosyrev rECEP TayyiP ErDOGaN Nikolay Horunzhiy EUrasia: RISING sPaCE OF NEW WOrlD 32 Alexander Knyazev Sultan Zhanaidarov Darya ShcherBaTyUK Irina Dubovitskaya 35 DO UKraiNE aND sCO NEED EaCH OTHEr? DMiTry KOsyrEv 37 iT’s rEal: sCO TO rEMaiN ONE-ON-ONE WiTH aFGHaNisTaN NEXT yEar alEXEi FENENKO 41 aMEriCa’s aFPaK PrOJECT: COUNTErBalaNCE TO sCO, CsTO MaKsiM KraNs 43 ClUsTErs OF THE FUTUrE TaTiaNa siNiTsyNa 45 lONEly VIOliN’s Call FOr THE OrCHEsTra… a lEXEi MaslOv 47 WOrlD WElCOMEs sCO UNivErsiTy AS NEW EDUCaTiON EXPEriENCE BOlOT DZHUNUsOv U SING MATERIALS REFERENCE TO THE NUMBER 50 CHiNGHiZ AITMaTOv: «GivEr sHall NEvEr LACK» INFOSCO REQUIRED. THE OPINION OF THE AUTHORS OF PUBLICATIONS DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE OPINION OF THE PUBLISHER. TaTiaNa siNiTsyNa 53 asTaNa: GENiUs lOCi Address for correspondence: yEKateriNa MUrOMTsEva 117218 Moscow, DarliNG OF THE sUN BisHKEK 58 street. Krzyzanowski, 7, Bldg. 2 Tel. / Fax: +7 (495) 718-84-11 JaNa NOviKOva www.infoshos.ru 60 vlaDiMir MayaKOvsKy’s «sTarlEss OrDEal» lyUBOv slOvyaKOva 62 CyrilliC ALPHaBET, UNFairly UNFavOrED iN POsT-sOviET sTaTEs MEDIAGROUP Taa Ti Na KUNiNa 64 arasHaN: NOBlE sON OF POisON InfoSCO, №6, 2013 www.infoshos.ru 3 FrM O sECUriTy TO rEGiONal iNTEGraTiON Almazbek Atambayev, President of Kyrgyzstan rEPUBliC approach to the problems of security I see one of the Organization’s primary and cooperation; it unites states goals as increasing its economic OF KyrGyZsTaN and nations that have time-tested attractiveness and making its activities friendly and good neighborly relations, practical. An early launch of big joint The Republic of Kyrgyzstan, as and close partnership contacts. This economic projects that are of regional one of the founders of the Shanghai predetermines the success of the SCO’s importance seems especially relevant Cooperation Organization, attaches gradual development, its huge potential today. We hope that Kyrgyzstan’s primary importance to comprehensive for comprehensive development in line presidency in the SCO has allowed cooperation within the SCO. As the with the goals and tasks laid out in the consolidating our joint efforts to achieve presiding country, Kyrgyzstan, together Organization’s founding documents. our common goals in areas ranging with other member states, is taking It is also important to note the open from security problems to regional effort to further strengthen the and non-confrontational nature of its integration. Organization, deepen interaction on activities that denies the bloc approach. regional security and counteraction to The agenda of the Bishkek summit on threats and challenges of the modern It is impossible to ensure security September 13, 2013, inspires optimism world, to intensify trade, economic, and stability in the region without and certainty about the SCO further cultural and humanitarian cooperation. fulfilling tasks of economic development growing as an international regional and improving the population’s living organization of a new format, increasing The attractiveness of the SCO standards. Given the difficult situation the efficiency of its mechanism and is due to the Organization’s broad in the global economy, demand for continuing work on major areas that geographic reach and aggregate interaction in the trade and economic have been annonced recently. demographic potential, comprehensive sphere is growing. In this connection, InfoSCO, №6, 2013 www.infoshos.ru 4 KyrGyZsTaN, MOUNTaiNOUs laND of ala-TOO… Chinara Asanova For InfoSHOS What could be easier than to talk about one’s homeland, it may seem… But it is hidden labor of a soul – to find colorful and succinct words that would be worthy of your motherland. Kyrgyzstan is a stunningly beautiful mountainous country. Within it, the western and central ranges of the Tian Shan meet the northern part of the Pamir, and borders with neighboring states go across solemn peaks. The spirit of mountaineers is freedom-loving and full of dignity. Our people are not only proud and free in their mentality, but also wise, kind, hospitable and hard-working. ROOTS The roots of Kyrgyz forefathers go for their place under the sun and for a dignified and prosperous life. After back to the ancient strata of civilization. freedom. all, it was God’s will to give us the Credible Chinese chroniclers maintain We are as unique as our beautiful luxurious land lying above the clouds, that the Kyrgyz were first mentioned land. No, we are not perfect and Ala-Too… in records in 201 BC. The history of the our life is so far full of problems and Yes, it is both easy and difficult nation’s establishment and development troubles. But people of Kyrgyzstan to describe one’s home country. You is filled with self-affirmation, struggle believe in their inalienable right for risk being partial. The country can be InfoSCO, №6, 2013 www.infoshos.ru 5 blooming and prosperous or poor and later, but afterwards the Kyrgyz had freedoms, the difficult period of struggling, but it is still the only one and to survive the ruling of the Khanate economic decline, power usurpation by you love it best. You are better aware of Kokand and they chose to join the the first president, people’s protests of its shortcomings than any foreign Russian Empire. that grew into a revolution, expectations expert. You resent certain things in from which never came true either. your people’s reality. But, if necessary, During the Soviet era, our country got you will protect every foot of this land an opportunity for rapid development The second president’s term in office with all your might and shout yourself of industry, agriculture, culture and brought even more poverty, rampant hoarse defending its honor and dignity. education. The population’s literacy was corruption, economic stagnation Thinking about it, is our motherland to 15% in 1926, but reached 82% by 1939. and criminalization of society and blame for any of our troubles? Of course Yet even as part of the Soviet state, the authorities. All these processes together it is not, it is we that have failed to Kyrgyz struggled for preserving their resulted in an almost complete loss of build a dignified and sensible society, to unique traditions, culture and historical all democratic achievements in the determine an efficient way of progress legacy of their ancestors. Many country. on the beautiful and generous land statesmen and educators of Kyrgyzstan given to us by the Creator. lost their lives to Stalin’s repressions. And once again, my freedom-loving people showed their intolerance of Our people are ancient. Credible injustice and lawlessness. Revolutionary Chinese chroniclers maintain that the iN sEarCH protests in April 2010 brought about Kyrgyz were first mentioned in records another change of regime in Kyrgyzstan. in 201 BC. At the end of the 15th century OF TrUE AD, our ancestors ousted Mongols from iNDEPENDENCE It took a lot of effort, patience and the territory of Naryn and Kashgar and time to bring the country back to the spent another fifty years deflecting their After the Soviet Union’s breakup, constitutional path. The Kyrgyz society attacks. By the 16th century, the Kyrgyz Kyrgyzstan gained sovereignty. It was wants to live in a prosperous state ethnicity had been formed completely. 1991. But it was still far from true governed by the rule of law, and we are The contemporary borders of our independence. Kyrgyzstan was to live willing to pay for this dream! country were determined two centuries through the euphoria of democratic InfoSCO, №6, 2013 www.infoshos.ru 6 MOUNTaiNOUs K yrGyZ PEOPlE HAVE LAND NO riGHT TO BE POOr Crossing our country from north Our country has a huge, not yet southwards, you can see winter and realized potential for development summer, spring and autumn, travel of environmentally clean agriculture. through all climatic zones in just two Plenty of warmth, light and water allow or three days. “The mountainous land growing warm-weather crops – grapes, above the clouds,” as it is often called, peaches, apricots, melons and gourds, lies across the mountainous ranges as well as cotton. of the Tian Shan and the Pamir-Altai. Mountains take up more than three Kyrgyzstan’s reserves represent the fourths of the country’s territory. There entire Mendeleev Table, as professional is not a single place that would go down geologists put it. There are huge reserves to the sea level – the country lies at at of coal, lead, molybdenum, wolfram, least 500 m above it, with some peaks quicksilver, rare-earth, non-ferrous and rising several thousands meters high. precious metals. The country also has huge hydropower reserves: they are The grand snowy peaks of Victory, estimated at 142 billion kWh, and only Lenin and Khan Tengri, celebrated by 10% of it is being used. The country has poets, are truly fascinating.

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