News Digest
ELECTION RESULTS DISAPPOINTS KYRGYZ OPPOSITION
By empty (3/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
According to results available for 71 of the 75 seats in Kyrgyzstan\'s new unicameral parliament, the opposition will only control about 10 percent of the legislature, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported on 14 March. Moreover, preliminary results of the 13 March runoffs indicate that former Prime Minister Kurmanbek Bakiev, an opposition leader who has already declared his intention to run in the October presidential elections, failed to win a seat. Opposition leaders pointed to numerous violations and questioned the legitimacy of the elections.KARABAKH CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS CONTINUE
By empty (3/14/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Sporadic shooting was reported on 11 March for the fourth consecutive day on the Line of Contact separating Armenian and Azerbaijani forces east of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. The NKR Defense Ministry issued a statement on 11 March blaming the exchanges of fire on repeated attempts by Azerbaijani forces to penetrate behind Armenian lines. A spokesman for the NKR Defense Ministry said one Armenian soldier has been killed and two wounded in recent days; one Azerbaijani serviceman was reported wounded in the head on 11 March.LUKOIL, KAZAKHSTAN CREATE OIL JOINT VENTURE
By empty (3/14/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Vagit Alekperov, president of Russia\'s LUKoil, and Timur Kulibaev, vice president of Kazakhstan\'s state oil and gas company KazMunayGaz, announced at a news conference in Moscow on 14 March that the two companies have set up a parity joint venture to develop Kazakhstan\'s Khvalynskoe oil field. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an agreement three years ago on the division of Khvalynskoe and two other oil fields in the northern Caspian.The project may require more than $1 billion in investment and should begin production in 2010, Alekperov said.KYRGYZ OPPOSITION LEADERS TO GATHER IN SOUTHERN REGION MARCH 15
By empty (3/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyz opposition leaders are planning to meet in Dzhalal-Abad in southern Kyrgyzstan on March 15 to discuss the outcome of the second round in the Kyrgyz parliamentary elections, being held on Sunday. Opposition forces will gather for a congress in Dzhalal-Abad on March 15, said sources in the organizing committee of the protest rally being held in Dzhalal-Abad. The organizers of the congress expect representatives of local communities from most of the country\'s regions to attend the congress alongside opposition leaders.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
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