Field Reports
A FIRST CASE OF SUSPICION OF STATE TREASON IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Maral Madi (7/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On 25 June the law enforcement agents from National Security Service (SNB) arrested five persons on charges of state treason and sale of state secrets to a foreign state. The arrested are two ex-officers of Ministry of Interior, an employee at the Feldjäger post service (military/state courier) under the Ministry of Transportation and Communication, a lecturer from the university in Bishkek, and a big entrepreneur. Later on July 1, SNB arrested a Colonel from the border guards services, and an ex-employee of SNB.AZERBAIJAN LOOKS TO PAKISTAN FOR MILITARY AID
By Fariz Ismailzade (7/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Musharraf thanked the Azerbaijani side for supporting Pakistan on Kashmir issue and pledged to continue supporting Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh issue. “Azerbaijan must restore its control over Nagorno-Karabakh and other occupied territories. Pakistan will do its best to help Azerbaijan.ASSANDI TIMES NEWSPAPER EFFECTIVELY CLOSED DOWN IN KAZAKHSTAN
By Olivia Allison (7/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Despite the seizure of its assets and the enormous fine, Assandi Times has announced publicly and on its Web site that it will resume publication Aug. 13. Nursultan Nazarbaev’s presidential administration filed the case after Assandi Times wrote an article in early June saying the editorial staff thought the presidential administration or someone close to it had produced a June 2 false issue of the newspaper.IS SOUTH OSSETIA BEING SACRIFICED?
By John Petrashvili (7/14/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
This week, while trenches were being dug on the Ossetian side, the Georgian interior troops mobilized outside at outskirts of the region. Inhabitants increasingly worried as the conflict moved closer to their summer houses. Reports gradually came from the Georgian television station Rustavi 2 that a few villages had exchanged fire.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.