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By Ariel Cohen (5/7/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: “Friendly interaction and businesslike cooperation are the characteristic features of our relations with Turkmenistan,” Interfax quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin. He probably also referred to a security agreement with Turkmenistan signed on January 2, 2003, in Ashgabat. Geopolitical and economic repercussions of this “deal of the century”, however, are broader than its gargantuan size.
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By Azer Mamedov (5/7/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: On April 21, speaking at the ceremony devoted to 30th anniversary of Nakhchevanski Military Academy, President Aliyev suddenly felt heartache and collapsed in front of 2,000 attendees. The incident was broadcast live to millions of people in the country. Later, on May 4, Aliyev was flown to Turkey for a health check-up at the Gulhane military hospital.
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RUSSIA’S MOVE IN CENTRAL ASIA

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By Stephen Blank (5/7/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: Russia’s elite remains unreconciled to America’s economic-military presence in the CIS, which it regards as a threat to the reconstitution of Moscow’s hegemony there. The war against Iraq reintensified fears of Moscow’s losing ground in Central Asia and precipitated coordinated moves against Central Asian states and America. Moscow’s recent moves follow Washington’s refusal to make concessions to Russia to win its support over the war with Iraq, implying that Russia gains nothing from partnership with America.
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By Michael Dillon (4/23/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: On Thursday, March 27, a long distance passenger bus owned by a travel company from Xinjiang was attacked 60 km outside the town of Kochkorka in the Naryn region of eastern Kyrgyzstan on the road from Bishkek to Torugart. The bus, which was carrying 17 passengers and at least two drivers, was travelling to Kashgar to collect goods for resale in Kyrgyzstan and the passengers were carrying large amounts of cash. The vehicle was discovered by a passing hunter 500 metres off the road in a meadow by the side of a river, and the authorities initially reported the incident as a traffic accident, serious but hardly unusual in a border region where large numbers of often unroadworthy vehicles are driven for long distances across difficult terrain.

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