TURKMENISTAN ACCUSES EUROPE OF SUBERSIVE ACTIVITIES
By Hooman Peimani (7/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Turkmenistan has made a reputation for its intolerance of dissent in any form since its independence. Many political dissidents have been imprisoned for their opposition to President Niyazov’s administration on charges such as “subversive activities” or “espionage”, while many have left the country to escape persecution. Thanks to years of suppression, the elimination of any significant political dissent has turned the Turkmen authorities’ attention to human rights activists and NGO workers, especially since Georgia’s Rose Revolution followed by Ukraine’s Orange Revolution and the March 2005 upheaval in Kyrgyzstan.READING THE SHANGHAI SCO SUMMIT
By Richard Weitz (7/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: On June 15, 2006, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held its fifth anniversary summit meeting in Shanghai. The heads of state of the six full members – China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – adopted several joint statements, including an overarching declaration marking the SCO’s fifth anniversary. Representatives from the four formal SCO observers – India, Iran, Mongolia, and Pakistan – also attended.WITH SADULAEV AND BASAYEV KILLED, GENERATION CHANGE IN THE CHECHEN LEADERSHIP NEARS
By Emil Souleimanov (7/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: Doku Umarov was born in 1964 in the village of Kharsenoy of the mountainous South-Eastern Chechen Shatoy district. He comes from the Mulkkhoy teyp (clan) and is an adherent of Sufi Islam, the Qadiriyya brotherhood of sheik Kunta-Haji. A graduate of the Oil Institute in Grozny, he was involved in business in western Siberia until 1994.THE BATTLE OF FORUMS: TRANSFORMATION OF REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN EURASIA
By Taleh Ziyadov (7/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: On June 22-23, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) held its summit in Minsk. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin transferred the chairmanship of the Council to Alexander Lukashenka of Belarus. In addition, Uzbekistan officially re-joined the club that it had left in 1999, increasing the number of member states to seven.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, "Promise and Peril in the Caucasus," AFPC Insights, March 30, 2023.
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Putin's War In Ukraine and the Crimean War), 19fourtyfive, January 2, 2023
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Russia Needs Its Own Charles de Gaulle, Foreign Policy, July 21, 2022.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Rethinking Greater Central Asia: American and Western Stakes in the Region and How to Advance Them, June 2022
Oped Svante E. Cornell & Albert Barro, With referendum, Kazakh President pushes for reforms, Euractiv, June 3, 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell Russia's Southern Neighbors Take a Stand, The Hill, May 6, 2022.
Silk Road Paper Johan Engvall, Between Bandits and Bureaucrats: 30 Years of Parliamentary Development in Kyrgyzstan, January 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell, No, The War in Ukraine is not about NATO, The Hill, March 9, 2022.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, Kazakhstan’s Crisis Calls for a Central Asia Policy Reboot, The National Interest, January 34, 2022.
Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Starr & Albert Barro, Political and Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan Under President Tokayev, November 2021.