Field Reports
IMU ACCUSED OF ATTACK ON TAJIK, KYRGYZ BORDER POSTS
By Zoya Pylenko (5/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In the dead of night, at 2.00 AM on 12 May, gunmen attacked the Lyakkon border post in the Isfara region in northern Tajikistan, killing three border guards. The attackers seized 19 automatic rifles, one heavy-caliber machine gun and cartridges there, before escaping to Kyrgyzstan’s Batken province across the border.KNOWN MAFIA BOSS MURDERED IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Erica Marat (5/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Rysbek became politically active after his younger brother, Tynychbek Akmatbaev, died in a October 2005 prison riot. Tynychbek, a member of parliament, headed the parliamentary committee on organized crime. In the days following Tynychbek’s assassination, Rysbek collected crowds in central Bishkek to demand the resignation of Kyrgyz prime minister Felix Kulov down.RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS IN AZERBAIJAN\'S NORTH
By Gulnara Ismailova (5/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The leaflets include messages noting that it is not necessary to establish gravestone monuments above the tombs of close relatives. They claim it is enough to set up a raw stone without inscriptions above a grave mound. Leaflets also teach that it is note necessary to arrange commemorations following the death of a person.ANOTHER GAS EXPORT DREAM: HOW FAR IS THE TURKMEN CHINA GAS PROJECT FROM REALIZATION?
By Muhammad Tahir (5/3/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
If all goes according to plan, the pipeline will relieve Ashgabat’s dependency on its traditional gas customers, Ukraine and Russia. Under the agreement signed by Niyazov and Chinese President Hu Jintao, Beijing agreed to buy 30 billion cubic meters of Turkmen natural gas annually for a period of more than 30 years, possibly starting in 2009. Niyazov’s view is even more ambitious – he believes the pipeline could be in operation one year earlier, delivering 50 billion cubic meters of gas by 2010, and carrying Turkmen gas as far as the Chinese port city of Shanghai.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.