Topics to be considered will include:

• The rights and position of ethnic minorities, the architecture of post-Soviet neo-nationalism, political processes from the democratization of society to the modernization of authoritarianism in the countries of the Central Asian region.
• Domestic and foreign policy, modern challenges and security threats. The Soviet legacy on borders demarcation in the context of the border and inter-ethnic contradictions in Central Asia. Socio-economic and migration processes in the region.
• Central Asia and the Russian ideology of Eurasianism towards neo-Eurasianism in the context of the regional bloc "EurAsEC" and the military-political bloc "CSTO".
• China and its “New Economic Belt - Reviving the Silk Road” and “SCO”, as mechanisms and tools of influence on the countries of Central Eurasia within the “Big Game”.
• EU strategy in Central Asia on route to renewal from 2019: development prospects and expectations.