https://bylinetimes.com/2025/10/27/is-russia-losing-the-great-game-in-central-a… Created Mon, 27/10/2025 - 23:41 Updated Mon, 27/10/2025 - 23:41 Iain Overton travelled to Tashkent, where cranes rise over Soviet relics and Chinese cars fill the streets, to see how Uzbekistan has become the lodestar of Central Asia’s quiet pivot away from Moscow Tags China Foreign Affairs Russia Uzbekistan