Central Asia

‘Maximally pragmatic’: Central Asia handles Russia’s Ukraine war

"I wholeheartedly support a straightforward annexation of all territories from which labor migrants arrive to instruct them in Russian precisely where they are." Zakhar Prilepin, a novelist who fought for separatists in Ukraine's Donbas region and is now co-chair of A Just Russia, a pro-Kremlin socialist party, stated at a December news conference in Moscow, "Not here, but in Uzbekistan, for instance."