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KAZAKH OIL FIRM RAISES 7-MONTH OIL OUTPUT
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Kazakhstan\'s state oil and gas company Kazmunaigas (KMG) said on Thursday its oil production in the first seven months of 2006 rose 106,400 tonnes to 5.5 million tonnes from the same period of last year. KMG plans to float up to 40 percent of upstream subsidiary Kazmunaigas EP on a foreign stock market, possibly in London, and raise $2 billion through the offering later this year.KYRGYZ OMBUDSMAN TO SKIP CONFERENCE OVER U.S. PRESIDENT\'S COMMENT...
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Ombudsman Tursunbai Bakir-uulu told a news conference in Bishkek on August 16 that he will not attend an ombudsmen\'s conference in Iowa because of a recent comment by U.S. President George W.NEW TAJIK ISLAMIC PARTY LEADER CHOSEN
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Muhiddin Kabiri was formally chosen on August 14 to lead Tajikistan\'s Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP) in the wake of longtime leader Said Abdullo Nuri\'s death. An official meeting of senior party officials in Dushanbe approved the nomination of Kabiri to replace Nuri, who died on August 9 after a lengthy battle with cancer. The 40-year-old Kabiri is a former deputy chairman of the party and the sole remaining IRP representative in the lower house of the Tajik parliament.KAZAKHSTAN TURNS OVER UZBEK REFUGEE TO UN
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Kazakh authorities turned over on August 15 an Uzbek refugee to representatives of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), RFE/RL reported. The unnamed Uzbek national, who sought refuge in Kazakhstan after fleeing from his native Uzbekistan in 1999, was arrested by the Kazakh police in June after Uzbekistan presented an extradition request. UNHCR spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis stated on August 15 that the man would be immediately resettled in an undisclosed third country, citing concerns for his safety if he was returned to Uzbekistan.Visit also
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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.
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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.