Prospects for Central Asia in 2016
Low oil prices, Russia's economic slowdown and continuing security fears over Afghanistan will dominate the region
Updated: Jan 15, 2016
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- Regional economy in flux
- Currency depreciation
- Large-scale projects on hold
- TAPI
- Growing security challenge
- Rising extremist threat
- Afghanistan factor
- Security cooperation to expand
- Political successions
- Nazarbayev to stay in charge
- Uzbekistan uncertainty
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_350.jpg "Kazkhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev (R) shakes hands with his counterpart from Uzbekistan Islam Karimov during a meeting in Astana, September 7, 2012. (Reuters/Mukhtar Kholdorbekov)")
