Field Reports
KAZAKHSTAN LAUNCHES ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN
By Marat Yermukanov (6/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Speaking at the June 1 session of the Security Council, President Nursultan Nazarbayev erupted with harsh criticism of the unbridled bribery and cronyism among top government officials. In an unprecedented manner, he provided the names of crooked judges and high ranking officers of law-enforcement bodies bogged in the mire of bribery, and demanded the immediate dismissal of dozens of corrupt officials. Giving the reasons for such harsh measures, Nazarbayev stressed that Kazakhstan, in order to achieve the goal of joining the 50 most competitive countries of the world, should wage an uncompromising war on corruption as it poses a serious economic threat to the country.RISING FOOD PRICES IRK GEORGIANS AS AGRICULTURE FALTERS
By Kakha Jibladze (6/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
During a televised meeting with the president and other government officials, Minister of Agriculture Mikheil Svimonishvili announced that prices would continue to rise as long as Georgian farmers were not contributing to the market. According to him, the country imports even basic necessities, such as eggs and vegetables. Over the past several months, Georgians have seen the price of staples like sugar jump from a stable one lari to 1.UZBEK COMMUNITY IN KYRGYZSTAN WANT UZBEK AS OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
By Joldosh Osmonov (6/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
400 delegates of the region’s Uzbek community on May 24, 2006, at the people’s kurultay in Uzbek National Cultural Center (UNCC) decided to hold a rally demanding designation of Uzbek as an official language in Jalalabad on May 27, 2006. The President of the UNCC Kadyrjan Batyrov stressed that the protest was not connected with the bigger opposition meeting in Bishkek scheduled the same day. Despite many promises by UNCC leaders on holding a meeting with several thousand participants, only 600-700 people took part in the protest.IMPROVING TAJIKISTAN’S BANKING SECTOR
By Bakhtiyor Naimov (5/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A cumulative ca. US$30 million has been invested in and/or lent to various banks across the republic. Tajikistan is not rich with natural resources or land, which almost necessarily implies that small and medium enterprises and services’ sector should be targeted for the country to become self sufficient.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.