Field Reports
IDENTIFYING PRIORITIES: UZBEK GAS – FOR EXPORT
By Erkin Ahmadov (1/23/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
This winter is trying the Central Asians for endurance and resistance to cold. In Uzbekistan, temperatures of -10 degrees Celsius (15 Fahrenheit) during the day and -20 (-5 Fahrenheit) at night hold strong for over three weeks.
BERDIMUKHAMMEDOV SLAMS MASS MEDIA IN TURKMENISTAN
By Chemen Durdiyeva (1/23/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On January 19, President Gurbanguly Berdimukhammedov held a meeting with a wide audience of the representatives of mass media, art and culture in Turkmenistan. Addressing the participants of the session, Berdimukhammedov laid out major criticisms on the mass media’s lethargic role in propagating what he called the “new ideology†in Turkmenistan.
BAKIYEV REGIME SUPRESSES YOUNG CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISTS
By Erica Marat (1/23/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan’s civil society has been flourishing since the early 1990s. Today, it represents a diverse community of activists promoting democracy, human rights, and inter-ethnic peace in the country.
RUSSIA DECREASES IMMIGRATION QUOTA THREEFOLD IN 2008
By Erica Marat (1/9/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) has recently announced its plan to reduce the quota for labor migrants coming to Russia from six million in 2007 to two million in 2008. In larger cities, the quota will decrease even more, with Moscow accepting six times fewer migrants in the coming year. However, even last year’s quota of six million proved to be insufficient, as the number of FMS-registered migrants exceeded seven million by the end of 2007.
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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.