News Digest
TWO KYRGYZ PARTIES TO NOMINATE IMPRISONED LEADER FOR PRESIDENT
By empty (12/15/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Two Kyrgyz opposition parties -- Ar-Namys and Ata-Meken -- have decided jointly to nominate imprisoned Ar-Namys leader and former Vice President Feliks Kulov for the 2005 presidential election, said parliamentarian and Ata-Meken leader Omurbek Tekebaev. Tekebaev described Kulov as the most important opposition candidate. Kulov is currently serving a 10-year sentence for alleged abuse of office during his government service as head of the National Security Service, vice president, and mayor of Bishkek.TAJIK GROUP GOES TO RUSSIA TO BRING HOME LABOR MIGRANTS
By empty (12/15/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A commission of Tajik railway officials, law enforcement officers, and journalists has gone to Astrakhan to help Tajik labor migrants stranded in the southern Russian city to return home. The stranded migrants appealed for help in a message that was published in the Dushanbe newspaper \"Charkh-i Gardun\" on 28 November. That message said that state air and rail booking offices were refusing to sell tickets to the migrants, and commercial sources were charging more than they could afford.MOURNERS HONOUR DEAD AZERI PRESIDENT IN BAKU
By empty (12/15/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Thousands of Azeris thronged the streets of Baku on Sunday to honour former President Haydar Aliyev, whose body was flown home to lie in state before a funeral to be attended by heads of most neighbouring states. Aliyev dominated Azerbaijan for three decades but became increasingly ill in the last year and died in a U.S.UZBEK LEADER DEMOTES PM AFTER POOR COTTON HARVEST
By empty (12/12/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbek President Islam Karimov said on Thursday he had appointed a new prime minister who would pay closer attention to agriculture following the country\'s lowest ever cotton harvest, its main export. Karimov told parliament in the Central Asian state that he had appointed Shavkat Mirziyavev, 46, prime minister to replace Uktir Sultanov, who would be demoted to deputy prime minister in charge of industry after eight years in the job. \"We must recognise that (Sultanov\'s) style of leadership shows a tendency towards industry,\" Karimov told parliament.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.