evidence: At the same time, a very different picture can be observed in the Fergana Valley where the territories of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan do not only meet, but are closely intermingled. The breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 fragmented the Fergana Valley with the three states having claims to each other’s territory. The border settlement negotiations have stalled for years due to the conflicting Soviet-time maps showing different frontiers of the Fergana Valley in the 1920s, 1950s and 1980s, thus allowing each country to use the preferred maps for their own advantage (Borthakur, 2017). As a result, the borders are delimited and demarcated only partially, and there exist a number of disputed territories between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The situation is aggravated with the presence of eight enclaves: six of them are located in Kyrgyzstan (four Uzbek exclaves and two Tajik exclaves), and two are in Uzbekistan (one Kyrgyz exclave and one Tajik exclave) where approximately 100 thousand people live on the foreign side of the border (Tashtemkhanova et al., 2017). [...] F. Belafatti. (2016). Borders in the Ferghana Valley: An Inevitable Source of Conflict? Center for Geopolitical Studies, Geopolitika. Available at: http://www.geopolitika.lt/?artc=6497. Accessed on: 16.02.2018.