Despite Tashkent's growing independence, the two countries still have reasons to cooperate.

Financial and political constraints will make it harder for many governments to maintain balance in the coming months.

The underlying factors leading to instability in Kyrgyzstan mean small protests can grow into threats to stability.

Russia will keep a close watch as tensions reignite between the Central Asian countries.

An evaluation and assessment of Stratfor's 2012 forecast and concise predictions for 2013.

Generational changes worldwide will be hard to deny in 2013.

Moscow is planning to strengthen military and economic partnerships with its key former Soviet satellites.

The first real move toward a rail line linking China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan has been made, but many obstacles remain.

Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan could face a bleak water future even without the proposed upriver dams.

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan hope to build new hydropower dams, which could increase tensions with downriver countries.