News Digest
187 KILLED IN MAY RIOTS IN ANDIZHAN - PROSECUTOR
By empty (7/11/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
One hundred and eighty-seven people were killed in the riots in Andizhan on May 13, Andizhan region Prosecutor Bakhadir Dekhkanov said. \"Among the victims are 94 terrorists, 20 law enforcement officials, 11 servicemen and 57 civilians. Five victims have yet to be identified,\" Dekhkanov said at a meeting in the Andizhan region administration on Monday.TEN THOUSAND DEMONSTRATE AGAINST GOVERNMENT IN AZERBAIJAN
By empty (7/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Some 10,000 opposition members, many dressed in orange, demonstrated Sunday in the centre of Azerbaijan\'s capital Baku to call for fair parliamentary elections in November. Participants at the rally, organised by the opposition Azadlyg (Freedom) Bloc, shouted: \"freedom\" and called on President Ilham Aliyev to ensure that the November 6 poll is free. Many wore orange clothing, a symbol inspired by last year\'s \"orange revolution\" that brought pro-Western opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko to power in Ukraine.KYRGYZSTAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS WILL BE FAIR - BAKIYEV
By empty (7/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan\'s acting President and presidential candidate Kurmanbek Bakiyev said the early presidential elections being held on Sunday will be fair and transparent. \"For the first time in recent years, elections offer each citizen the right to choose,\" Bakiyev told journalists at a polling station. \"Our citizens have an opportunity to support the leader they think is best for the country.AZERBAIJANI COURTS ANNUL VERDICT AGAINST ANOTHER OPPOSITION LEADER
By empty (7/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Baku\'s Nasimi District Court annulled on 8 July the guilty verdict handed down in October 2004 to DPA First Deputy Chairman Serdar Djalaloglu on charges resulting from the clashes in Baku between police and opposition protesters in the wake of the disputed October 2003 presidential election. Djalaloglu is the fifth of the seven oppositionists sentenced in that case to be exonerated. However, the Sabail District Court on 8 July declined an appeal by National Democratic Movement Chairman Iskander Hamidov to annul the charges of abuse of power and embezzlement on which he was sentenced in 1995 to 14 years\' imprisonment.Visit also
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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.
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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.