Field Reports
NEW WINDS OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN BISHKEK AND TASHKENT
By Joldosh Osmonov (11/29/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A Kyrgyz delegation led by President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev paid a two-day official visit to neighboring Uzbekistan on October 3-4, 2006. On the first day of the visit, Bakiyev met with his Uzbek counterpart Islam Karimov. Aside from the Uzbek President, Bakiyev also met with the speakers of the two chambers of the Uzbek parliament, Ilgizar Sabirov and Erkin Khalilov, and Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziev.GEORGIA PLANS FOR ALTERNATE GAS SUPPLIES TO ESCAPE GAZPROM’S PRICE HIKE
By Kakha Jibladze (11/29/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
According to Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, Gazprom’s demands are the equivalent of economic blackmail against the country as it doggedly follows its pro-Western orientation. During a speech on November 23, the president sought to encourage Georgians to stay united in their fight against Russia’s influence despite the threat of more hardships this winter.“Those who want to make Georgia kneel down will soon understand that they will fail and we will get stronger.
A NEW BRIDGE ON PANJ RIVER CONNECTING TAJIKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN
By Sultanbek Aksakolov (11/29/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
This was the third of a series of bridges built by the AKDN across the Panj River to connect the rural, mountainous, isolated and impoverished communities living along the borders of Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Following the Great Game in the Pamirs and the 1895 agreement between the Czarist Russian Empire on the one hand and Afghanistan and the British Empire on the other hand, the area was politically divided along this river. The division of the Pamiris resulted in the loss centuries’ of the economic, social and cultural connections between the communities living on both sides of the river.PRESIDENT TOURS THE COUNTRY, OPPOSITION WARNS OF ELECTION CAMPAIGN PR
By Fariz Ismailzade (11/15/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On October 31, the President visited Ganja and Dashkesan, where he opened newly built facilities, adequate to world standards, including an international airport and a swimming pool. Similarly, a number of medium-size businesses were opened by the president. These included a chocolate producing factory, built by French technology; an iron-producing factory, left without work for 16 years and recently privatized by the British company “Detal”; and a newly built highway, worth US$12 million.Visit also
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.