Field Reports
PUTIN AN ENIGMA TO UZBEKISTANI CITIZENS
By Anonymous, Tashkent, Uzbekistan (4/12/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The people of Uzbekistan hold widely varied views about Russia’s newly elected president Vladimir Putin. On one point, however they all agree. Putin represents an enigma to everyone.
KYRGYZSTAN’S FIRST LADY MAIRAM AKAYEVA WOWS JERUSALEM
By Gideon Remez (4/12/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
While Kyrgyzstan's President Askar Akayev was coming under international criticism for disqualification and harassment of his adversaries in parliamentary elections, First Lady Mairam Akayeva was engaged in positive and successful cultural diplomacy in Israel. At the President's House in Jerusalem, Professor Akayeva and her Israeli counterpart Reuma Weizmann introduced their joint project: a selection from the Manas epic translated in Hebrew, offering most Israelis their first encounter with the Kyrgyz national epic.
The two First Ladies met at a conference three years ago, soon after UNESCO declared "Year of the Manas Epic" to honor the 1000th anniversary of the epic, whose million or so lines form the longest such poem in the world.
ENTREPRENEURS’ RIGHTS IN NORTHERN KAZAKHSTAN
By Marat Yermukanov (4/26/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
According to the Regional Statistics Board, 23% of the economically active population of the Northern Kazakhstan Region is involved in small business. On the other hand, the private business sector is widely believed to be an easy target for local government officials and a host of inspecting bodies who often misuse their power to extort money. The Northern Kazakhstan Police Department reported that 29 cases of bribery were committed in 1999.
UZBEKS ON ALBRIGHT IN UZBEKISTAN
By Anonymous, Tashkent (4/26/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
It cannot be said that the visit of US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was a matter of great concern to the Uzbekistani people. But the matter was on almost everoyone’s mind:
Jamsheed, 26 years old, Uzbek, manager at a multi-national corporation stated: "Top officials from the United States are rare guests to our country. And after each time one visits we expect an improvement in our two countries’ relations.
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Staff Publications
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.