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<jats:p> Departing from the previous tripartite post-colonial/neocolonial geopolitical structure, contemporary world offers a different specter of possibilities and alliances which rearrange the former actors and their mutual relations and (in)dependencies in unexpected ways. The most striking of such shifts is the reemergence of Asia on a global scale within a dewesternizing model, which negotiates post-colonial and modernizing impulses at once. However, there are regions which have lost their ability (and right) to speak and think and were disqualified from the position of the honorary second world to that of the global South. Such are the Asian regions that used to be a colonial part of the Russian/Soviet empire. They went through a Soviet modernization which redoubled their colonial status due to a subalternized position of the Russian/Soviet empire itself, now going through its final demise. This article reflects on what options are left for the former Asian colonies of Russia/Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) which today are once again stereotyped through Orientalist or Progressivist lens, and left out by both rewesternizing and dewesternizing parties. A good option for them is a decolonial option grounded in restoring memories, local histories, and epistemologies in a complex and dynamic interplay with and a resistance to modernity. As a post-Soviet and decolonial Asian other, the author attempts a critical analysis of intersections between post-soviet and post-colonial dependencies and possible decolonizing projections that might help this other Asia eventually join the triumphant Asian century in the capacity of one of its rightful agents. </jats:p>