Afghanistan’s Karzai Has U.S., World Support

While votes are still being counted after presidential elections in Afghanistan, RIA Novosti asked a regional expert to comment on the situation in the war-torn Central Asian country. Can elections in Afghanistan be fair? Who benefits from a Karzai presidency? What will be the outcome of the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan?

Interview with Viktor Korgun, head of the Afghanistan Studies Department at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Oriental Studies

by Samir Shakhbaz