News Digest
NEW OIL FIELDS DISCOVERED ON KAZAKHSTAN'S CASPIAN SHELF
By empty (10/10/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan's national oil-and-gas company KazMunayGaz announced on 10 October the discovery of new oil reserves located in the Caspian Sea, some 80 kilometers southwest of the giant Kashagan field. A trial well is producing some 2,300 barrels of crude per day. The estimated size of the new field was not specified.GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT VOTES TO DESIGNATE ABKHAZIA AN AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC
By empty (10/11/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At the insistence of representatives of the Tbilisi-based Abkhaz government in exile, the Georgian parliament included in its agenda this week a constitutional amendment designating the breakaway unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia an autonomous republic within Georgia. The constitution adopted in 1995 failed to define the region's status within Georgia pending the restoration of the central government's control over the entire territory of Georgia. Deputies approved the proposed amendment unanimously on 10 October by 167 votes.GROZNY BLAST KILLS LOCAL POLICE CHIEFS
By empty (10/11/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At least 23 people were killed by an explosion late on 10 October in a regional police headquarters in Grozny. The dead included all of Chechnya's local police chiefs. Chechnya's Emergency Situations Minister Ruslan Avtaev said on 11 October that he is 100 percent certain the blast was caused by a bomb, not a natural-gas explosion.KAZAKHS FROM UZBEKISTAN TO HAVE PRECEDENCE IN REPATRIATION PROCESS
By empty (10/11/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan's Demography and Migration Agency announced on 10 October that all 48 families of Kazakhs from abroad who will be permitted to settle in Kazakhstan this year within the framework of a long-term repatriation program will come from Uzbekistan, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reported. Preference will be given to families from Kazakh-populated villages that were designated part of Uzbekistan's territory under the recently concluded border agreement. (RFE/RL).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.