Field Reports
KYRGYZSTAN CLOSES BORDERS WITH CHINA
By Aijan Baltabaeva (6/4/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Should that happen, the state budget cannot sustain the financial load of a struggle against the SARS epidemic. China has spent over 185 million dollars for this purpose. The Kyrgyz Health Care Ministry does not have any special equipment for atypical pneumonia diagnosis, it even experiences a scarcity of protective costumes for doctors.AZERBAIJANI-IRANIAN RELATIONS ENDANGERED AFTER RUSSIAN PUBLICATION
By Fariz Ismailzade (6/4/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijani officials were quick to refute these claims. \"The information published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta about Baku\'s agreement to allow its territory for an attack on Iran is nonsense. The appearance of such kind of information in the Russian press is a political order of some interested circles\", said Vilayet Guliyev, the Foreign Minister of the country.NEW ELECTION CODE PASSED IN AZERBAIJAN
By Gulnara Ismailova (6/4/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The law also stipulates the principles of forming election commissions within the transition period. The document is an altered version of the one proposed by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. In the modified version, the representation of the opposition in the election commissions was reduced.KAZAKHSTAN CLOSES THE DOOR TO CHINA AS SARS PANIC SPREADS
By Marat Yermukanov (5/21/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Those who first sounded alarm bells alerting the public to the threat of a horrible pneumonia epidemic were journalists. Their eye-witness reports from East Asian countries, unlike official sources, depicted the true scale of the SARS epidemic. Media accounts bordered on direct accusations of officials for criminal neglect.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.