Field Reports
CHECHEN AND INGUSH COMMUNITIES IN CENTRAL ASIA: TROUBLED PAST, UNCERTAIN FUTURE?
By Erica Marat (3/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Only few Central Asians are familiar with the February 23 Day of Chechen Rebirth, announced by Dzhokhar Dudayev, the first President of the Independent Chechen state. On that day in 1944, Joseph Stalin forcefully deported about 500,000 Chechens and Ingush to Central Asia from the North Caucasus on the false accusation of collaborating with German Nazi troops. In the process of deportation, thousands died because of severe weather conditions and brutal means of transportation.CONFRONTING CORRUPTION IN CHECHNYA
By Alisa Voznaya (3/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Baibatyrov in 2003-2004 directed the committee responsible for compensating Chechen victims, who had lost their homes or other property during the years of conflict, and is suspected of embezzling more than 15 million roubles (ca. US$520,000) from the fund. In the same week, the Chechen branch of the FSB security service launched a criminal investigation exploring extensive theft from a project to rebuild Grozny’s main airport.BAKU SEEMS DETERMINED TO TRADE TURKISH BUSINESS INTO RUSSIAN
By Fariz Ismailzade (3/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
It was specifically noted by the General Prosecutor’s office that the company is also accused of being tied to the former Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev, who was arrested in last October on charges of coup attempt.In 2000 Barmek was granted a 25-year long permission to manage the electricity distribution system of Baku, Sumgait (a major industrial town in the north of Baku) and the whole northern part of Azerbaijan. Reportedly, Barmek was chosen in the tender process over the German company Siemens, after the personal lobbying of then Turkish President Suleyman Demirel.
KAZAKH OPPOSITION LEADER’S DEATH SPARKS WIDESPREAD PROTESTS
By Marat Yermukanov (2/22/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Public indignation aroused by Sarsenbayuly’s death, generally recognized as a premeditated murder, was so strong that this time even business elite distanced from political affairs demanded the rule of the law to be upheld.The dead bodies of 43 year-old co-chairman of True Ak Zhol party and one of the leaders of For a Fair Kazakhstan opposition bloc Altynbek Sarsenbayuly, his bodyguard and his driver with tied arms were found on February 12 on the roadside near a farm located not far from Almaty. Altynbek Sarsenbayuly and his companions had five bullet wounds to the chest and to the head.
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