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By Asma Shakir Khwaja (4/21/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: On March 28, Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai stated that national elections were to be postponed until September. This decision came after the United Nations said that elections could not be held in June, as outlined in the 2002 Bonn Agreement. The UN claimed that “Lack of security, slow progress in the disarmament of militias, slow voter registration and a weakly-developed legal and institutional framework for democratic politics are jeopardizing the success of any future elections.
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By Jaba Devdariani (4/7/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: Georgia’s Central Election Commission has announced the results with all votes cast on March 28 counted. These results are not officially final, as re-vote was scheduled in two districts of the Ajarian Autonomous Republic, Khulo and Kobuleti, on April 18. The count shows the Mikheil Saakashvili’s National Movement-Democrats (NMD) in the lead with 67.
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By Sebastian Sosman (4/7/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: Afghanistan\'s greatest historical challenge in the modern era has been establishing effective centralized administrative systems. The rugged Hindu Kush rises up in the center of the country, creating a \"ring\" of major economic hubs and arable regions. This ring system, by its very shape, acts to discourage centralization around one administrative hub.
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By Alima Bissenova (4/7/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: While benefiting from the positive consequences of soviet rule in terms of industrialization, universal literacy, public education, and medical care, Kazakhs also suffered the downside of the Soviet regime. As a nation, they paid a great human and cultural cost for ‘socialism building’ and ‘progress’ of the Soviet era. During the forced collectivization and sedentarization of the 1920 and 1930s, almost half of the Kazakh population died of starvation.

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