Field Reports
HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION AS A WAY TO ERADICATE VIOLENCE IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Anna Kirey (10/8/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The hotline phone rings every five minutes at Women Crisis Center “Sezim” (which means “feeling” in Kyrgyz). Each woman who calls has a story to tell – either kidnapped, beaten, pregnant for the fifth time trying to give birth to a baby boy pressured by the family of the her husband or just upset – they all are listened to by the psychologists working in the center. There are only seven women working full-time in the Center and they are proud that the hotline works 24 hours a day without holidays.KAZAKHSTAN UNDER PRESSURE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING
By Marat Yermukanov (10/8/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Until recently, problems related to human trafficking have been considered to be a byproduct of a transitional economy and impoverishment of the population, which can be partly solved, if not uprooted entirely, by raising the living standards of people. Economic reality denies this theory. With an inflation rate of only 2.MASS PROTESTS AGAINST REGULATIONS ON BISHKEK BAZAARS
By Aziz Soltobaev (10/8/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The introduction of the decree that prescribed to entrepreneurs to purchase and operate cash registers was motivated with concerns for consumer rights and the opportunity to increase tax collection. However, entrepreneurs and their lobby groups think differently. They believe the realization of this decree will have negative consequences for the economy of Kyrgyzstan and will expand corruption within controlling authorities.KYRGYZSTAN’S ENERGY SECTOR MIGHT SOON FACE CRISIS
By Gulzina Karim kyzy (9/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On September 18 at a press conference held in the information agency AKIpress, the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly (lower chamber of the Kyrgyz parliament) Committee on matters of fuel and energy Tairbek Sarpashev said that if the situation keeps its current pace, a crisis in the energy sector can come in January or February of 2004. According to him, at present there are three important issues in the energy sector of Kyrgyzstan. Since the division of the “Kyrgyzenergo” into three companies, a system of interrelation among them has not been worked out yet.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.