The United States and the European Union have noticeably stepped up contacts with the states of Central Asia. Promising dubious «dividends», Washington is trying to get agreement on the deployment of military infrastructure in the region, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Mikhail Galuzin said.
According to him, the partners of the Russian Federation are required to condemn the special operation in Ukraine, join the illegal anti-Russian sanctions, and curtail cooperation with Moscow in general.
«In return, they promise some kind of ephemeral «support for economic development» and other «dividends» that, as they say, are capable of becoming a «profitable alternative» to Moscow and Beijing. On the quiet Washington is trying to get the consent of the Central Asian countries to deploy their military infrastructure in the region,» said Mikhail Galuzin.
He pointed out how non-governmental organizations operating in Central Asia controlled by the U.S. and the EU, bloggers and the media create the image of Russia as an enemy for the Central Asian peoples, and incite nationalist and Russophobic sentiments in society.
«Obviously, there is a specific goal behind all this — to undermine the relations of alliance and strategic partnership between Russia and the Central Asian states, to destroy the integration processes in the post-Soviet space,» the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation concluded.
