News Digest
COUNTERTRAFFICKING PROJECT RESCUES 179 VICTIMS
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Nodira Karimova, coordinator of the International Organization for Migration\'s countertrafficking project in Uzbekistan, told a news conference in Tashkent on 12 November that the project has rescued 179 victims of human trafficking in its first year. Karimova said that the project had helped the victims to return home from abroad. A report by RFE/RL\'s Uzbek Service the same day quoted Muzaffar Aminov, a Surkhondaryo resident who recently returned from Russia, as saying that many Uzbeks are currently employed as virtual slaves in Russia.KAZAKHSTAN\'S PARLIAMENT OKS 2005 BUDGET
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Kazakhstan\'s parliament on Monday approved the oil-rich Central Asian nation\'s 2005 budget, sending the draft to President Nursultan Nazarbayev for his signature. The budget envisions a deficit equal to 1.7 percent of gross domestic product, down slightly from 1.KAZAKH COMMUNICATIONS MARKET GROWS A THIRD IN 9 MTHS
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Kazakhstan\'s communications market grew 32.6% year-on-year to 119.4 billion tenge in January-September, the national statistics agency told Interfax.REGIONAL MUSLIM LEADER CALLS FOR PRAYERS FOR IRAQIS IN AL-FALLUJAH
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The chief Muslim cleric in Tyumen Oblast, Fatykh Garifullin, has asked that prayers be said for fellow Muslims in Al-Fallujah, Iraq, islam.ru reported on 9 November. \"The fate of those martyrs under siege in Al-Fallujah awaits all those who do not agree to dance to the tune of [U.Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.
Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.