Field Reports
UYGHURS IN KYRGYZSTAN UNDER CAREFUL GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION
By Rustam Mukhamedov (1/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On January 13, 2004, the Bishkek human rights organization “Democracy” appealed to the presidents of the U.S., Russia, Germany, Great Britain, Turkey, Kazakhstan and to the Secretary General of the United Nations to pay attention to human rights violations of Uyghurs who live in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.RUSSIA SECURES ITS FOOTHOLD IN KAZAKHSTAN
By Karim Sayid (1/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The economic and political relations between the neighboring countries sharing a three thousand mile border, despite their constant protestations of friendship, are overstrained by a host of unsettled issues. The announcement of 2004 as the Year of Russia in Kazakhstan, which implies something more than a cultural achievement in both countries, was in this sense ill-timed. The trade turnover between Kazakhstan and Russia is still on the decline, although Russia remains the dominant trade partner of Kazakhstan.BAKU TURNS INTO A SILK ROAD ANTI-NARCOTICS CENTER
By Fariz Ismailzade (1/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
\"Considering the geographic location of Azerbaijan between Asia and Europe, criminal groups attempt to turn our country into a transit corridor with the help of air and land transports. But Azerbaijan will not allow this and will conduct an active fight with illegal drug trafficking,\" said deputy Prime Minister Ali Hasanov, opening the conference. Hasanov serves as the chairman of the state commission on the fight against drugs and drug trafficking.ISLAMIC GROUPS BANNED IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Aisha Aslanbekova (1/14/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Of these four groups, Hizb-ut-Tahrir is the most popular and active in Kyrgyzstan, whose members take actions mainly through oral propaganda and disseminate leaflets among local citizens calling for the overthrow of the constitutional system. It has recently been suspected by Kyrgyz security services of planning an attack on an airbase near Bishkek where American-led coalition forces are located. But Hizb-ut-Tahrir, whose members reject violent methods and act by means of persuasion, disclaimed the Kyrgyz government’s accusation.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.