News Digest
TAJIK OPPOSITION PARTY DEMANDS DETAILS OF LEADER\'S \'EXTRADITION\'
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Tajikistan\'s Democratic Party has sent a written appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov, and Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov asking them to clarify the details of party head Muhammadruzi Iskandarov\'s transfer from Russia to Tajikistan, RFE/RL\'s Tajik Service reported on 2 May. Iskandarov, who was released from detention in Ru ssia in early April, had told his lawyers he was subsequently abducted in Russia and brought to Tajikistan by unknown individuals. Russian and Tajik authorities have not commented on the circumstances of Iskandarov\'s return to Tajikistan.KYRGYZ ASABA PARTY NOMINATES PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
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The political council of Kyrgyzstan\'s Asaba party has nominated the country\'s acting Prosecutor General and Asaba leader Azimbek Beknazarov as a presidential candidate. Beknazarov, who is also a member of parliament, could not be reached for comment. The Asaba party leader said following the March political crisis in Kyrgyzstan, that he would support interim President and Prime Minister Kurmanbek Bakiyev as a candidate in the presidential elections.KAZAKH OPPOSITION MEMBERS ATTACKED
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A group of unidentified young men attacked leaders and members of the Kazakh opposition bloc For a Just Kazakhstan in Chimkent, the administrative center in southern Kazakhstan, bloc members said at a press conference in Almaty on Tuesday. Bloc activists Altynbek Sarsenbayuly, Bolat Abilov, Serikbolsyb Abildin and Amirzhan Kosanov said the incident occurred when the bloc was preparing for a regional conference on Monday. (Interfax).AZERBAIJANI PARLIAMENT RATIFIES OIL CONTRACTS WITH SOME DISSENTING VOICES
By empty (5/4/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijan\'s parliament on 29 April ratified three oil contracts worth almost $1 billion that were signed last year to develop three on-shore oil fields. Azerbaijan\'s state oil company SOCAR has a stake in all three contracts. Its partners are Caspian Energy group (U.Visit also
Staff Publications
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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.