News Digest
ADB APPROVES NEW LOAN FOR UZBEKISTAN
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The Asian Development Bank announced on 3 May that it has approved a $38 million loan to Uzbekistan to help finance improvements to drinking-water supplies and sanitation in Khorezm Oblast and Karakalpakstan. Both regions were badly affected by drought in 2000 and 2001. (RFE/RL) .KYRGYZSTAN, TAJIKISTAN HIT BY MUDSLIDES
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Mudslides in southern oblasts of Kyrgyzstan have destroyed over 300 homes in Osh Oblast in recent days, RFE/RL\'s Bishkek bureau reported. Prime Minister Bakiev traveled to Osh on 30 April to inspect the damage, which is estimated at $1.5 million.ARMENIA FAILS TO MEET PRIVATIZATION TARGET FOR 2001
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Buyers were found for only 75 percent of the 300 large and medium state-owned enterprises slated for privatization in 2001, State Property Minister David Vartanian told journalists in Yerevan on 2 May, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. As a result, Vartanian continued, revenues from privatization fell to 2.5 billion drams ($4.U.S. RESTORES AFGHAN TRADE PRIVILAGES
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US President George W Bush has given the order to resume normal trading with Afghanistan after a gap of 16 years. Normal Trade Relations (NTRs) privileges will be applied to imports from Afghanistan when the order takes effect in about a month\'s time. The imports will have the same low-tariff access to US markets as goods from all but a handful of countries.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.