The reset of the relationship of the United States with Russia is being put to the test for the first time. Kyrgyzstan poses a tough challenge: can the reset really work in a high-stakes game in which the vital interests of the two sides are sharply divergent?
Unlike in the case of Iran sanctions, there is no scope for dissimulation. Real-time cooperation is needed to cauterize the wound that opened in June in southern Kyrgyzstan and which now threatens to turn gangrene.
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