Central Asia as a post-communist region including Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, has attracted the more and more interests of the world economic and political centers at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-fi rst centuries. This trend of the world affairs is due to a number of reasons. Among them one should mention growing concurrence between important regional and global powers for the dominance in the region, numerous transboundary threats and challenges as well as explored stocks of the carbohydrates. The future development of the region seems ambiguous. It depends on the outside infl uences and on the political stability and the degree of inner integration.