Field Reports
TURKMENISTAN AND UKRAINE: WHAT THEY WANT FROM EACH OTHER?
By Muhammad Tahir (11/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkmen official sources say the current deadlock was broken when the Ukrainian side agreed to pay US$484 million of its debt, which dates back to the years when Turkmenistan shipped its natural gas to Ukraine at US $58 per 1000 cubic meter, paying half of it in goods and half in cash. According to the new understanding between the two parties, Kiev will pay this amount by the end of this year in hard currency, goods or services. If Ukraine fails to do so, then Kiev will be given 30 days to pay this amount in cash.CRIMINALS BREAK INTO POLITICS IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Nurshat Abubakirov (11/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
“Destructive forces interested in the escalation of the situation are trying to take advantage of this tragic event, playing with the emotions of the killed parliamentarian’s relatives and close friends by spreading misleading information about Prime Minister Felix Kulov’s and the Jogorku Kenesh’s involvement in this incident” was the official description of the situation given by the Prime Minister on 27 October. In a decree, the Prime Minister also required the municipalities, the ministries, and the law-enforcement agencies to take all the necessary measures in order to prevent the further complication of the situation.Parliamentarian Tynychbek Akmatbaev, parliamentary staffer Talas Omorov, and the head of the penitentiary system Ikmatullo Polotov were on a tour inspecting the Novopokrovskaya prison colony #3 and the Moldovanovskaya colony #31 after reports of prison riots and murders.
BADAKHSHAN: MORE POVERTY AFTER RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL
By Zoya Pylenko (11/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Apart from traveling by road, one can fly to Badakhshan, usually with a small, 17-seat Antonov AN-28 plane, which tries to find its way through the Pamir mountains because it can’t fly over all the summits. But in winter, when the mountains are shrouded in clouds, the road is the only option available. And the road to Badakhshan is narrow and very rarely asphalted.RASUL GULIYEV FAILED TO RETURN TO AZERBAIJAN
By Gulnara Ismailova (11/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The run-up to the November 6 parliamentary elections was supposed to see the homecoming of Rasul Guliyev. Guliyev was a vice-premier in the government in the early 1990s, and later became the Speaker of Parliament. Having left the post in 1996 after allegations of large-scale graft, Guliyev departed to self-imposed exile in the United States.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.