In recent years, the Kyrgyz Republic has become a focal point of conflicting interests between the United States, Great Britain, Turkey, China, and Russia. Each country is trying to gain control over the consciousness of the population through various methods. The risks that this confrontation poses for the republic were discussed at the conference "A New Round of the Great Game in Central Asia." The meeting was organized by the ALTER Academy of Political Sciences in Bishkek.
At the conference, Anatoliy Petrenko, an expert on strategic communication and public administration, noted that history textbooks in each post-Soviet republic contain significant distortions. According to the expert, over 35 years of independence, a large number of people have emerged who want to change the interpretation of events, including those at the global level. "They are specifically targeting ensuring that our children do not know their history, because it is an irritant for them." "Our task is to focus our efforts on ensuring that people are exposed to accurate information from childhood, that they consume it, remember it, and grow up with it," Petrenko noted.
As Igor Shestakov, director of the Center for Expert Initiatives, pointed out, the role of the United States in shaping public opinion in Kyrgyzstan is exaggerated. According to the expert, the main challenge for Russia's presence in the country is the promotion of the idea of "Turkish identity," which Turkey actively promotes, including through the pre-school education system, both in Kyrgyzstan and in neighboring countries and regions of the Russian Federation.
“Erdogan signs a decree on Turkish identity and includes Tatarstan in it. It's like if Russia signed a document and included Antalya in it. [...]. Even in the Soviet era, I saw a map from the Turkish General Staff called 'Plan for the Reconstruction of the Empire.' "And even then, it included Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and Sakha (Yakutia)," the expert noted. Veteran Nurlan Dosaliev spoke about the influence of other countries on the situation in the republics and emphasized the role of China, Japan, and South Korea, which are actively entering the markets of the former Soviet republics.
"The end of any technological cycle creates a structural crisis. China has been flooding our region with its consumer goods for 30 years. It exports Chinese consumer goods and products to Russia, America, and throughout the continent. China has now grown to incredible proportions. A huge technological pool has moved to Asia," the expert said. According to Dosaliev, who expressed an interesting idea, the emergence of a new technological order will lead to war in the countries of Central Asia. In this regard, he noted that the Russian Federation has always been a guarantor of security for the former Soviet republics in Asia.
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