Field Reports
ATTACKS IN KHANABAD AND ANDIJAN: WHAT IS TRUE?
By Erkin Akhmadov (6/3/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On May 26, 2009, Uzbek troops were deployed on the border with Kyrgyzstan. The alert on the border was caused by unknown extremists attacking a border post on the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border, as well as the National Security Service and Internal Affairs Administration buildings in the city of Khanabad in the Andijan region. Later during the day, a suicide bombing took place in the city of Andijan.
WHOSE ‘SPHERE OF INFLUENCE’? EASTERN PARTNERSHIP SUMMIT IN PRAGUE
By Karoly Benes (6/3/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On May 7, 2009, European leaders gathered in Prague to sign a Joint Declaration on the Eastern Partnership (EaP), planning to foster closer political and economic ties with six former Soviet states; Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The Eastern Partnership, a joint Polish-Swedish initiative, aims to bring democratic reforms, trade liberalization and a visa facilitation process for the involved partner countries, through bilateral and multilateral mechanisms. The initiative has met strong Russian condemnation, as President Dmitry Medvedev’s opinion showed: “We tried to convince ourselves [that the EaP is harmless], but in the end we couldn’t.
EMOMALI RAHMON ANNOUNCES FIGHT AGAINST PERSONALITY CULT
By Suhrob Majidov (6/3/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon has ordered the removal of his pictures from offices, public places and roads. However, the order concerns only those pictures where Emomali Rahmon is portrayed with representatives of local authorities. As the President’s Press service announced, “The President ordered to remove pictures and carpets which portray the President of the Republic of Tajikistan together with heads of local administrations from offices, public places and roads, with the aim to prevent servility and misunderstanding from the population”.
KYRGYZSTAN: SAME OLD PLOT FOR UPCOMING ELECTIONS
By Erica Marat (5/27/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Preparations for the upcoming Presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan resemble any other in Central Asia. The incumbent President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has shown no sign of willingness to give up office, while the opposition is not able to create a viable challenge to the regime.
To date, 17 candidates have registered to run for president, with most of them seeing the presidential bid as an advancement of their own positions in local, as opposed to national, constituencies.
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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.