Field Reports
LOCAL IMAM KILLED IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Nurshat Ababakirov (8/23/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
According to the Kyrgyz National Security Service (NSS), that evening the intelligence forces attempted to pull out a terror group from a densely populated district in Osh, the regional capital of southern Kyrgyzstan. The Islamist terror group tried to escape in a car, which belonged to Imam Kamalov. As reports suggest, the car ignored requests to pull over and responded with gunfire.CONSTRUCTION BOOMING IN DUSHANBE DESPITE BUSINESS THREATS
By Zoya Pylenko (8/23/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In a way, Tajikistan has benefited from its location north of Afghanistan. With international attention to Afghanistan increasing after the fall of the Taliban in November 2001, Tajikistan also came into the spotlight. International organizations, NGOs, foreign embassies and some investors started flocking to Dushanbe.KODORI GORGE OPERATION SHOWS GEORGIA’S GROWING STRENGTH
By Kakha Jibladze (8/23/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
With the decisive move that the operation constituted, President Mikheil Saakashvili proved that the country has severed ties with the Shevardnadze era. During the government of Former President Eduard Shevardnadze, the Georgian government had little to no control over its territories and little ambition to rein them in. Strong regional leaders like Emzari Kvitsiani ruled small fiefdoms with little interference from Tbilisi.CRIMINAL GANG TRIAL SHEDS LIGHT ON THE MURDER OF EDITOR
By Alman Mir Ismail (7/26/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
This revelation is very sensational and adds more spice to Mamedov’s trial. He is accused of murdering and kidnapping famous Azerbaijani businessmen and politicians and their relatives for a period of more than seven years, while serving as the chief investigator of the Interior Ministry’s Criminal Investigation Department with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Mamedov was arrested in March 2005 by the special services of the Ministry of National Security after kidnapping the wife of one of the leading bankers in the country.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.