There is a significant amount of high-quality scientific literature focused on Central Asia. Social and political scientists, historians, and anthropologists have studied this region for a long time. At the same time, the region cannot be considered as one of the most researched areas. Except for Afghanistan, Central Asia remains an understudied, unexplored, and mystical region for the Western world. The modern independent countries of the region gained statehood in the last forty years. In the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was part of the Russian Empire and later the Soviet…
