Field Reports
THE DESTRUCTION OF KASHGAR
By Ruth Ingram (12/17/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
It is 9 p.m. in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, North West China.TURKMENISTAN’S FAILED COUP: ONE YEAR AFTER
By Chemen Durdiyeva (12/17/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
This November 25th, 2003 marked the first anniversary of the failed assassination attempt on President Saparmurad Niyazov’s life. On this date a year ago, gunfire was opened on Niyazov’s motorcade with the purpose of physically removing him from his post. Whether this attack was a genuine incident or allegedly staged or fabricated by the government still remains a subject for comprehensive investigation.THE 1990S END IN AZERBAIJAN, AS THE NATION MOURNS ITS PATRIACH
By Elin Suleymanov (12/17/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Yet for many Azerbaijanis, the departure of Heydar Aliyev, once one of the USSR’s most powerful men and later Azerbaijan’s strong-handed leader, who ruled the country for over three decades totally, is a turning point in the country’s road to independence and the end of an era. In fact, the death of Aliyev, a patriarch of the region, is in a sense ending the 90s in Azerbaijan and in the Caucasus. With the Georgian patriarchal ex-President Eduard Shevardnadze ousted from office by a younger generation of leaders, Ilham Aliyev succeeding his father Heydar in Azerbaijan, and Russia ruled by younger, more dynamic Vladimir Putin, the region faces a new political dynamic.PARLIAMENT CONSIDERS LAW ON STATUS OF KYRGYZ LANGUAGE
By Aijan Baltabaeva (12/3/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Both law proposals comprise 11 articles that concern every citizen of Kyrgyz Republic, given the multinational character of the country and the presence of over eighty nations with their own language in Kyrgyzstan. Specifically, these law proposals require at least a third of the broadcasting, mass media and advertisement information to be in Kyrgyz, a transition to the Latin alphabet, and a pay rise for state employees knowing the Kyrgyz language.This law is to replace the present law, which was adopted in 1989, during Soviet times.
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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.