Elmira Akhmetova is a PhD candidate in history and civilisation at the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM).

Bayram Balci is Senior Research Assistant in Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI). Since December 2011 he is Visiting Scholar in Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC. He was Director of the Institut Français d’Etudes sur l’Asie Centrale, (IFEAC) in Tashkent and Research Assistant in Institut Français d’Etude…