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UZBEKISTAN TOPS LIST OF REMITTANCE RECIPIENTS FROM RUSSIA
By empty (8/30/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Data from the Russian Central Bank suggests that Uzbekistan was the largest recipient of remittances from Russia in the second quarter of 2006. Uzbekistan and Ukraine each received some $210 million, followed by: Tajikistan ($187 million); Armenia ($129 million); Moldova ($115 million); Kyrgyzstan ($102 million); Azerbaijan ($94 million); Georgia ($81 million); and Kazakhstan ($22 million). (ferghana.KAZAKH OFFICIAL SAYS U.S., BRITAIN WARY OF OSCE BID
By empty (8/29/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Deputy Foreign Minister Rakhat Aliev, who is also President Nazarbaev\'s son-in-law, told a meeting of a state democratization commission in Astana on August 28 that Britain and the United States have reservations about Kazakhstan\'s bid to chair the OSCE in 2009, Interfax-Kazakhstan reported. \"Certain countries, among which the United States and Great Britain stand out, while generally welcoming Kazakhstan\'s initiative [to chair the OSCE], at the same time view critically the prospects for its chairmanship in 2009,\" Aliev said. The OSCE is expected to make a decision on Kazakhstan\'s bid by the end of 2006.FORMER AMBASSADOR SLAMS JAPANESE PREMIER\'S VISIT TO CENTRAL ASIA
By empty (8/28/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi left on August 28 for a four-day visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the first-ever trip by a Japanese leader to Central Asia. The Japanese international broadcaster cited recent remarks by Aleksandr Panov, one of Moscow\'s former ambassadors to Tokyo, to the effect that Koizumi is seeking to \"confront\" Russia and China in Central Asia on behalf of the United States. Panov argued that Koizumi will achieve nothing.KAZAKHSTAN TAKES STOCK OF MIGRANT-LEGALIZATION PROGRAM
By empty (8/28/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Some 24,000 migrant workers have profited from a Kazakh program to legalize the status of unregistered migrant workers that got under way earlier this summer. The program, which will continue until the end of the year, is expected to legalize 100,000 workers, mainly from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Russia. Under the program, recently arrived illegal workers are able to receive migration cards and work legally.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.