Religious Security in the Post-Soviet Muslim Space

In: Russia and New States of Eurasia, Heft 4, S. 149-161

Abstract

Religious security became one of the important spheres in internal and external political affairs of the post-Soviet Muslim countries during 30 years of their independent development. Each of these states, including Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, gained their own experience in solving problems of religious security which however had many common features and methods of fighting religious extremism and radicalism. As a result it allowed the above countries to form cooperation in this field during the last decade and to undertake a lot of common practical and legal interstate steps in order to provide their religious security.