Field Reports
MEDVEDEV MAKES ANOTHER BID TO REACH BREAKTHROUGH IN NAGORNO KARABAKH
By Haroutiun Khachatrian (10/29/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The official visit of Russian president Dmitri Medvedev to Armenia on October 20-21 had one, serious political result (perhaps the only one): the proposal to the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan to meet in Moscow in an attempt to find a way out of the deadlock in the Nagorno Karabakh issue. This was in line with the policy of Moscow to consolidate its positions in the South Caucasus through expanding its influence along the axis Baku-Yerevan-Ankara.
UZBEKISTAN OPTS FOR FOOD CROPS PRODUCTION
By Erkin Akhmadov (10/29/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On 20 October 2008, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan adopted the presidential decree “On Measures for Optimizing Cultivated Areas and Increasing Food Crops Production”. The decree largely aims to increase the amount of land growing food crops by decreasing the volumes of cotton crops.
KYRGYZSTAN: CAN NEW TAX CODE BOOST BUSINESS?
By Nurshat Ababakirov (10/29/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On October 20, President Kurmanbek Bakiev signed a new Tax Code, which will come into force this January. The government believes it will boost the economy by decreasing prices of domestic products, stifle corruption, and, importantly, pull national business out of the illegal market.
EXPLOSION IN A BAKU MOSQUE: INTERESTED PARTIES AND POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS
By Alman Mir Ismail (8/20/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
What was feared the most in Azerbaijan happened. On August 17, a grenade was thrown into the most controversial mosque in the capital city of Baku, the Abu Bekr mosque.
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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.