23. Peyrouse interview; Rachel van Horn, “Central Asia: Russian Language Experiencing Rapid Decline,” Eurasianet.org, 15 December 2011, http://www.eurasianet.org/node/64711.
24. Interview with Anya, December 2014, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
25. Interview with Stanislav, December 2014, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
26. Interview with Viktoriya, December 2014, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
27. Interview with Oleg, December 2014, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
28. Interview with Yolbars, December 2014, Turkmenistan.
29. Interview with Berdi, December 2014, Turkmenistan.
30. Interview with Artur, December 2014, Kyrgyzstan.
31. Interview with Yusuf, December 2014, Tajikistan.
32. Interview with Katerina, December 2014, Tajikistan.
33. Interview with Anatoly, December 2014, Tajikistan.
34. Interview with Gash, January 2015, Uzbekistan.
35. Interview with Karina, January 2015, Uzbekistan.
36. Alexei Malashenko, “Interesy i shansy Rossii v Tsentral’noy Azii,” Pro et Contra, January–April 2013, p. 21, http://carnegieendowment.org/files/ProEtContra_58_21-34.pdf. For Russia-Chinese developments see “Russia, China Agree to Integrate Eurasian Union, Silk Road, Sign Deals,” RT, 8 May 2015, http://rt.com/business/256877-russia-china-deals-cooperation/.
37. Cooley, Great Games, Local Rules, p. 7.
38. Frank Shanty, The Nexus: International Terrorism and Drug Trafficking from Afghanistan (Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2011), pp. 37–41.
39. Rossiiskiy Sovet po Mezhdunarodnym Delam, “Interesy Rossii v Tsentral’noy Azii,” Rossiiskiy Sovet po Mezhdunarodnym Delam, 2013, pp. 6–7, http://russiancouncil.ru/common/upload/RIAC_Central_Asia.pdf.
40. Malashenko, “Interesy i shansy Rossii v Tsentral’noy Azii,” p. 21.
41. “Vserossiiskiy molodyozhnyi forum ‘Seliger-2014,’” kremlin.ru, 29 August 2014, http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/46507.
42. Nuria Kutnayeva, “Inostrannye voyennye bazy na territorii post-sovetskoy Tsentral’noy Azii,” Tsentral’naya Azia i Kavkaz 13, no. 2 (2010): 85–86.
43. See “Governing Uranium,” http://uranium.csis.org/production/; “Uranium and Nuclear Power in Kazakhstan,” World Nuclear Association, December 2014, http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-G-N/Kazakhstan/.
44. Isabel Gorst, “Former Kazakh Nuclear Chief Given Jail Term,” Financial Times, 12 March 2010, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/965ba1f2-2dfc-11df-b85c-00144feabdc0.html.
45. World Nuclear Association, “Uranium and Nuclear Power in Kazakhstan.”
46. Anna Matveeva, “Selective Engagement: Russia’s Future Role in Central Asia,” Central Asia Policy Brief No. 3, Elliott School of International Affairs, July 2012, p. 3, http://037eabf.netsolhost.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Policy_Brief_3_July_2012.pdf.
47. Kutnayeva, “Inostrannye voyennye bazy na territorii post-sovetskoy Tsentral’noi Azii,” pp. 85–86.
48. Viktor Baranets, “Vo chto nam obkhodyatsya voyennye bazy za granitsey,” Komsomol’skaya pravda, 14 June 2012, http://www.kp.ru/daily/25899.4/2856991/.
49. Rustem Falyakhov, “Rossiya zaplatit za soyuznikov,” Gazeta.ru, 23 December 2014, http://www.gazeta.ru/business/2014/12/23/6356133.shtml.
50. Andrei Kolesnikov, “Integratsioznye processy,” Kommersant, 25 October 2013, http://kommersant.ru/doc/2327907; Nargis Kassenova, “Kazakhstan and Eurasian Economic Integration: Quick Start, Mixed Results and Uncertain Future,” Russei.Nei.Reports n14, Centre Russie/NEI, November 2012, p. 24.
51. Sergei Strokan, “Nursultan Nazarbayev vstupilsya za nezavisimost,” Kommersant, 1 September 2014, http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2557170.
52. Rossiiskiy Sovet po Mezhdunarodnym Delam, “Interesy Rossii v Tsentral’noy Azii,” p. 12.
53. “Uzbekistan Will Never Join Any Union That Resembles Soviet Union: Islam Karimov,” Tengri News, 16 January 2015, http://en.tengrinews.kz/politics_sub/Uzbekistan-will-never-join-any-union-that-resembles-Soviet-Union-Islam-Karimov-258399/.
54. Rossiyskiy Sovet po Mezhdunarodnym Delam, “Interesy Rossii v Tsentral’noy Azii,” p. 15.
55. “BP Statistical Review of World Energy June 2013,” p. 20, https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/pdf/statistical-review/statistical_review_of_world_energy_2013.pdf. For alternative figures see “International Energy Outlook 2010,” Washington, DC: U.S. Energy Information Administration, July 2010, p. 57, http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/archive/ieo10/pdf/0484%282010%29.pdf.
56. “BP Statistical Review of World Energy June 2013,” p. 6.
57. Jim Nichol, “Central Asia: Regional Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests,” Congressional Research Service, 21 March 2014, p. 53, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33458.pdf.
58. Roy Allison and Lena Jonson, Central Asian Security: The New International Context (Tehran: Institute of Political and International Studies, 2003).
59. Adnan Vatansever, Russia’s Oil Exports: Economic Rationale Vs. Strategic Gains (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2010), pp. 18–19.
60. Nichol, “Central Asia: Regional Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests,” p. 52.
61. Alexander Vershinin, “China Loans Turkmens $4bln in Exchange for Gas,” BloombergBusiness, 26 April 2011, http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9MRG3CO0.htm.
62. Chris Rickleton, “Is Turkmenistan’s Gas Flowing Toward a One-Country Policy?” Eurasianet.org, 18 August 2014, http://www.eurasianet.org/node/69591.
63. “Is Turkmenistan Losing Iran as a Gas Customer?” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 14 August 2014, http://www.rferl.org/content/qishloq-ovozi-turkmenistan-iran-gas/26530894.html.
64. U.S. Energy Information Administration, “Turkmenistan,” January 2012, http://www.eia.gov/countries/country-data.cfm?fips=TX.
65. Boris Barkanov, “The Geo-Economics of Eurasian Gas: The Evolution of Russia-Turkmen Relations in Natural Gas (1992–2010),” in Export Pipelines from the CIS Region, ed. Andreas Heinrich and Heiko Pleines (Stuttgart: Ibidem Press, 2014), pp. 165–67.