Richard Boucher

Ambassador Richard Boucher served as assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia from 2006 to 2009.

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The leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan posing with heads of other Collective Security Treaty Organization member states in Moscow, Dec. 19, 2012.

Where Is Central Asia, Anyway?

December 17, 2021

A former top U.S. diplomat reflects on the many ways ex-Soviet Central Asia can be viewed from Washington — Russian dependency, Chinese sphere of influence, new global hub with links in all directions — and on the limitations of all those visions.

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