News Digest
AZERBAIJANI OIL FUND ASSETS AT $810 MILLION JULY 1
By empty (7/1/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Azerbaijani state oil fund said Tuesday that it has accumulated $809.9 million in receipts from oil sales. \"We had $760.BOMB IN MOSQUE WOUNDS 10 IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN
By empty (7/1/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A bomb exploded in a mosque in southern Afghanistan during evening prayers, wounding 10 people, three of them seriously, the main preacher and officials said on Tuesday. The preacher at the mosque, in Kandahar city, supports Afghanistan\'s U.S.KYRGYZSTAN CALLS FOR URGENT AID TO AVERT NUCLEAR RISK IN CENTRAL ASIAN VALLEY
By empty (6/30/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A senior Kyrgyz official appealed for urgent help to avert the danger posed by a Soviet-era uranium mine threatening Central Asia\'s densely populated and seismically unstable Ferghana Valley. \"Ecological catastrophe could hit the whole Ferghana Valley\" as a result of the mine on the banks of the Maily-Su river, which flows into Andzhan in neighbouring Uzbekistan, Amarkul Aitaliyev, a senior official at Kyrgyzstan\'s ecology and emergency situations ministry, told journalists. Aitaliyev\'s comments followed a Franco-Belgian investigation sponsored by the European Union into the disused mine.KYRGYZ PARTY DECLARES ITSELF IN OPPOSITION
By empty (6/30/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Kyrgyz Ar-Namys Party formally declared itself in opposition to the government at its thirdcongress on 28 June. The congress, which was attended by 98 elected delegates from all oblasts, re-elected former Vice President Feliks Kulov as head of the party. Kulov, presently serving a jail sentence for crimes alleged to have been committed during his period as the country\'s top security official, reportedly runs the party from his jail cell.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.