Field Reports
ARE KYRGYZSTAN’S SECURITY SERVICES BECOMING DISCREDITED?
By Aijan Baltabaeva (1/12/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The disappearance of Tursunbek Akun caused international and Kyrgyz non-governmental human rights organizations to appeal to the Kyrgyz Government to facilitate and support the search for their colleague. However, Akun’s followers, led by his wife Gulmira Japarova, believe that the National Security Service (NSS) played a key role in his disappearance. The same story was repeated by Akun when he appeared after two weeks.MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN AZERBAIJAN SHOW COMPLETE VOTER INDIFFERENCE
By Anar Kerimov (1/12/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Official statistics from the Central Election Commission released a day after the voting indicated that more than 46% of the total voting population visited polling stations, yet many local observers doubted that number.Close to 38,000 candidates contested 21,622 seats in 2,732 local governance bodies. Major opposition parties, such as the Musavat, Democratic and Popular Front parties boycotted the race and withdraw the names of their registered candidates from the ballots, citing numerous problems with the electoral process in the country.
RULING REGIME IN KAZAKHSTAN STEMS UKRAINIAN TIDE
By Marat Yermukanov (1/12/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Ukrainian “orange revolution”, as the pro-Yushchenko demonstrations in Kiev were baptized, went almost unnoticed in Kazakhstan, except for sketchy TV reports. But messages from Kiev were echoed by the leading opposition forces, the Democratic Choice of Kazakstan (DCK) and Ak Zhol Democratic Party. A recent issue of the Azat paper, mouthpiece of the DCK, carried challenging headlines printed in large letters: “Georgia yesterday, Ukraine today, Kazakhstan tomorrow?” Apparently these words were the last drops that filled the cup of the authorities’ patience.AFGHAN PRIORITIES AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION
By Daan van der Schriek (12/15/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Improving the security situation in the country before the parliamentary elections in April is important but made more difficult now that international forces are being reduced after Afghanistan\'s successful presidential election. However, reducing the international presence in the country might come to soon. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report to the General Assembly and the Security Council on the eve of the inauguration that extremists and terrorists, militia forces and criminals engaged in the drug trade continue to pose threats to Afghanistan.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.