News Digest
KOREAN CONSORTIUM FINDS OIL IN CASPIAN SEA
By empty (7/6/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The state-run Korea National Oil Corp. and LG International have found an oil field in Kazakhstan. The two found an oil field with estimated reserves of 20 million barrels in Aktobe in central Kazakhstan, KNOC said Thursday.KAZAKH PRO-PRESIDENTIAL PARTIES MERGE
By empty (7/4/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The pro-presidential parties Otan and Asar joined forces on July 4 when participants in Otan\'s extraordinary ninth congress voted in favor of the merger. Darigha Nazarbaeva, head of the Asar Party and daughter of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaeva, floated the idea on June 19 of a merger to unite all pro-presidential parties. Nazarbaev, who heads Otan but has delegated leadership of the party to Bakytzhan Zhumagulov for the duration of his presidency, told Otan members at the congress that the new party must preserve discipline and avoid a division into \"Otan members\" and \"Asar members.CHINESE FIRM, NDC TO CONDUCT JOINT DRILLING IN CASPIAN
By empty (7/4/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
North Drilling Company (NDC) and a Chinese contractor will jointly be running the drilling business in the Caspian Sea upon the delivery of Iran-Alborz Platform by SADRA Company, Esfandiar Jahangiri noted here Friday. “The Chinese are provided with an operation base in Neka, Mazandaran Province, which was given to us two years ago,” NDC’s engineering and operation manager stated, stipulating that everything is still pending upon the delivery of the platform, now facing a two-year delay. The Chinese firm, selected in a call for tender, is to assist the NDC with drilling operation in deep waters of the sea, he said in conclusion.PUTIN ADVISER PREDICTS THAT 1 MILLION RUSSIANS WILL RETURN FROM ABROAD
By empty (7/3/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kremlin adviser Modest Kolerov told Interfax on July 1 that more than 1 million Russians, most of them \"professionals\" currently living in unspecified countries that are undergoing \"a socioeconomic crisis,\" plan to take advantage of the repatriation program announced by President Putin on June 26. That program guarantees benefits and support for persons who agree to settle in border regions in the Far East. Returnees will also be permitted to settle in regions where the population is declining rapidly, or where major investment programs are under way.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.