14:02, 17 октября 2024, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Gulmira MAKANBAI KYZY
Historian, political scientist, researcher of the history of Central Eurasia and the Middle East Zhar Zardykhan (Kazakhstan) told why the Central Asian states should not be called post-Soviet.
The IV International Conference Esimde — «Post-Communist Central Asia: Space for Reflection» is held in Bishkek.
Speaker Zhar Zardykhan noted that even after 30 years of independence, the former Soviet Union countries continue to call themselves post-Soviet.
«The economic and political systems of Lithuania and Turkmenistan are very different from each other. But we still call ourselves post-Soviet countries. No one in other regions calls themselves that. We do not call Croatia post-Yugoslav, Slovakia post-Czechoslovak, we do not call Bulgaria and Greece post-Osmosman, or India post-British,» Zhar Zardykhan said.