Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Sarah Mendelson, a senior fellow with the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, was quoted by the New York Times, "After 2005 Uzbek Uprising, Issues Linger for the West."
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Sarah Mendelson, a senior fellow with the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, was quoted by the New York Times, "After 2005 Uzbek Uprising, Issues Linger for the West."
The theater that burned has a fresh coat of paint. Bullet holes have been plastered over. Newspapers talk of cattle farming, tennis courts and World War II victories. [. . .]
The Bush administration's counterterrorism practices since 2001 have eroded its moral authority with countries like Uzbekistan, analysts said. "The U.S. doesn’t have the kind of leverage it had," said Sarah Mendelson, a Russia expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "We’ve got this elephant in the room."
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