News Digest
KAZAKHS PLAN CHINA OIL PIPELINE
By empty (2/23/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan is expecting to start building an oil pipeline to China later this year, the head of the country\'s national oil company has said. Uzakbay Karabalin said work on the longest section of the planned pipeline is likely to begin in July or August. The pipeline will enable Kazakhstan to export its substantial reserves of oil to the east, where China is seeking new energy sources for its growing economy.UZBEK OFFICIAL WELCOMES U.S. FORCES
By empty (2/21/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbekistan will allow the United States to keep military forces here as long as needed for operations in Afghanistan, and would consider a permanent U.S. outpost if Washington wanted one, the Uzbek foreign minister said in an interview Saturday.NUMBER OF SERVICE PERSONNEL AT RUSSIAN AIR BASE IN KYRGYZSTAN TO QUADRUPLE
By empty (2/21/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The commander of Russia\'s Fifth Airborne Division, General Yevgenii Yurev told Interfax that by the end of this year, the number of service personnel stationed at the Russian air base at Kant will rise from the current 200 to 800. The number of aircraft stationed at the base is scheduled to be doubled, and in the course of the year runways are to be upgraded to accommodate heavy aircraft. (Interfax).KAZAKH OPPOSITION MOVEMENT HOLDS FOUNDING CONGRESS
By empty (2/21/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The opposition Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (DVK) movement held its founding congress in Almaty on 21 February. Although only 180 delegates attended the congress, they reportedly represented an additional 1,267 people who submitted letters of proxy, making the total well over the 1,000 people required to validate a party\'s founding congress. The congress adopted a party program and a charter, both of which will be submitted with other registration documents to the Justice Ministry.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.