News Digest
KAZAKHS \'NOT READY FOR DEMOCRACY\'
By empty (6/14/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has warned of the destabilising effects of importing Western-style democracy too rapidly to central Asia. Speaking at the opening of a summit on foreign investment in Almaty, he said democracy should be learned over time. His remarks follow a wave of popular uprisings in the region, including neighbouring Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.CART EXPLODES IN TAJIK CAPITAL
By empty (6/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An explosion took place in Dushanbe on 13 June outside the Emergency Situations Ministry and the Savings Bank of Tajikistan, RFE/RL\'s Tajik Service reported. Avesta quoted law-enforcement sources as saying that the blast force was equal to 50-100 grams of TNT equivalent. Dushanbe prosecutor Habibullah Vohidov said a cart of the sort used to haul goods at local bazaars exploded; he stressed that no one was killed.UZBEK PRESIDENT MEETS WITH RUSSIAN POLITICAL ANALYSTS
By empty (6/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbek President Islam Karimov met on 10 June in Tashkent with a delegation of Russian political analysts led by Politika foundation head Vyacheslav Nikonov. Noting that Uzbekistan is currently under \"information attack,\" Karimov told the Russian analysts, \"I am confident in your unbiased and objective evaluation of the issues.\" After a tour of Andijon, Nikonov said, \"The numbers of victims of the tragic events in Andijon that some foreign media have provided are clearly exaggerated.SECURITY GUARDS FIRE ON KYRGYZSTAN MARKET TRADERS
By empty (6/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Security guards outside a hotel opened fire on hundreds of market traders who had come to the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh Monday to demand fair market practices, police said. Four people were wounded. About 350 people, half of them women, came from the border town of Kara-Suu to demonstrate against Bayaman Erkinbayev, an Osh-based legislator who is connected to the market in their town.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.