KAZAKHSTAN’S CEREAL POWER AND ITS REGIONAL IMPACT
By Sebastien Peyrouse (7/15/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Since 2006, food security has become a major preoccupation for the states of Central Asia. The situation is particularly bad in Tajikistan, but cases of malnutrition are also multiplying in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan. In this context, the Kazakhstani cereals market, in constant development, has acquired a strategic character for the whole region, which is largely dependent on exports from Astana.
IS RUSSIA STIRRING UNREST IN CENTRAL ASIA?
By Nicklas Norling (7/1/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Over the past few months, the Russian FSB and other state organs have been pouring out warnings on the imminence of a military conflict and insurgency in Central Asia. These warnings proved partially correct when a border post in Uzbekistan was attacked by militants in late May and a suicide bombing struck Andijan a few days later. To prevent further incursions, Uzbekistan even began digging a 10 feet wide "anti-tank" trench at its border with the Kyrgyz Republic.
RUSSIA, THE WTO, AND THE CIS
By Stephen Blank (7/1/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russia has announced it will no longer apply for World Trade Organization membership as a single state. Rather, it would only consider joining the WTO if it came in as the head of a customs union, i.e.
IMPLICATIONS OF THE YEVKUROV ATTACK: DOES A NEW REGIONAL ROLE BECKON FOR RAMZAN KADYROV?
By Kevin Daniel Leahy (7/1/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Following an failed assassination attempt on June 22, Ingush President Yunas-Bek Yevkurov is current receiving treatment for serious injuries at a medical facility in Moscow. Although the attack on Yevkurov was probably the work of Islamist militants, it is an arch-enemy of the latter, Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov, who stands to benefit the most from Yevkurov’s misfortune. The main strategic consequence of Yevkurov’s near-assassination may well be the bestowal of a region-wide mandate for counter-insurgency operations on the ambitious Chechen leader.
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