News Digest
KAZAKH PRESIDENT COMPLAINS OF FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN CONNECTION WITH
By empty (12/23/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakh President Nazarbaev on 23 December appealed for international organizations to stop interfering in domestic Kazakh affairs and, in particular, to stop telling the country which laws to adopt and which to reject. Nazarbaev\'s comments came in reaction to recent appeals from international journalism organizations against the adoption of a controversial draft media law. The government draft has been sharply criticized by independent azakh journalists, who say it gives the state too much power over the media.PUTIN HINTS AT FURTHER MOVES AGAINST BIG BUSINESS
By empty (12/23/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Vladimir Putin said on 23 December that while no wholesale revision of privatization is planned, this \"doesn\'t concern people who didn\'t observe the law.\" \"We often hear that the laws were complicated and it was impossible to observe them,\" Putin said in a speech to the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. \"So speak those who didn\'t observe them.ALLEGED MOSCOW THEATER SIEGE PARTICIPANT ACCUSED OF BEING \'DOUBLE AGENT\' DIES IN CAR ACCIDENT
By empty (12/17/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Khanpash Terkibaev, a Chechen journalist who some observers allege participated in the October 2002 seizure of a Moscow theater by Chechen fighters, was killed in a traffic accident near Grozny on 15 December. The agency quoted Grozny district administration head Shaid Dzhamaldaev as saying that four other people riding in the car with Terkibaev also died in the accident, the causes of which are under investigation. In April, \"Novaya gazeta\" correspondent Anna Politkovskaya reported that Terkibaev traveled to Moscow with the Chechen fighters who seized the theater and ensured that their journey was unimpeded, and that he left the theater before Russian commandos stormed it.SOUTH KOREA SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH KYRGYZSTAN ON LABOR MIGRANTS
By empty (12/16/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
South Korea has become the first country to sign an agreement with Kyrgyzstan on accepting Kyrgyz labor migrants. Korean agencies expressed an interest in receiving Kyrgyz workers in November 2002, but final arrangements were made only in September during a visit to South Korea by Kyrgyz Labor and Social Security Minister Roza Aknazarova. The ministry\'s employment centers will have responsibility for the selection and training of Kyrgyz citizens taking jobs in South Korea.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.