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By Ariel Cohen (3/26/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: According to government statistics, Kazakhstan is boasting an impressive 9.8 percent economic growth rate in 2002. It further expects GDP to grow at annual rates of 6.
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By Hasan Kanbolat & Suat Kiniklioglu (5/8/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: One of the major features of the Putin administration is the increasing tendency to stem centrifugal forces within the Russian Federation and strengthen the Center. In response, the federal republics as well as all other administrative units (krai, oblast, federal city, autonomous oblast and autonomous okrug) are using every opportunity to maintain and possibly increase the political, economic, social and cultural autonomy attained during the Soviet and immediate post-Soviet era. The current struggle between these two opposing trends is destined to determine what sort of federalism will prevail in the Russian Federation.
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By Abraham Cohen (2/12/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: The post-9/11 era brought a great reduction of the external threats to Central Asia posed by the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and contributed to stability and an increased geopolitical significance of the region in world affairs. However, the picture is not necessarily rosy. The economic situation is deteriorating, due partly to low world markets prices for the region\'s major export commodities, but also because of the absence of or mistakes in reforms, and the increased involvement of clan-based politics in the struggles for power in the regional states.
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By Rizwan Zeb (2/12/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: Last December, a high-level defense delegation from India visited Iran. The Indian team also evaluated the proposed development of a transport corridor from India to Afghanistan and Central Asia through Iran and submitted its findings in a report to the Defense Ministry. The Indo-Iranian defense cooperation agreement was signed on January 19 in Tehran by Admiral Madhavendra Singh, Indian Navy chief and chairman of the Chief of Staff Committee, and Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani, Iranian Minister of Defense and Logistics of the Armed Forces.

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The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.

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