News Digest
GAZPROM TO BUY GAS PIPELINE CONNECTING IRAN/ARMENIA
By empty (7/3/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Gazprom plans to buy a pipeline being built from Iran to Armenia and complete the link\'s construction. Gazprom would pay about $30 million to Armenia to gain control of the project and spend about $100 million to complete the link, deputy CEO Alexander Ryazanov said Friday. The pipeline would carry as much as 1.KYRGYZ OFFICIAL SAYS REMITTANCES AT $750 MILLION IN 2005
By empty (6/30/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Lyubov Ten, head of the macroeconomic policy department in Kyrgyzstan\'s Economy and Finance Ministry, said in an interview on June 29 that remittances from migrant workers totaled an estimated $750 million in 2005. Ten said that the International Organization for Migration puts the number of Kyrgyz migrant workers in Russia at 300,000-500,000 and in Kazakhstan at 50,000. Ten noted that the Bishkek Consensus Institute for Economic Policy (IEP) estimates the total number of Kyrgyz migrant workers at 400,000, including 50,000 outside the CIS.PUTIN SEEKS TO LURE ETHNIC RUSSIANS HOME
By empty (6/27/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on June 26 for the \"repatriation\" of ethnic Russian \"compatriots\" living abroad, the daily \"Gazeta\" reported on June 27. Presidential aide Viktor Ivanov has been named to chair an interdepartmental commission to oversee the program, which could potentially affect up to 4 million people, primarily from CIS countries, the paper noted. Those coming to Russia will have to choose one of 12 regions divided into three categories.ASAR PARTY LEADER: KAZAKHSTAN MUST HAVE NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY
By empty (6/26/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan\'s Asar party leader and parliamentary deputy Dariga Nazarbayeva has proposed pro- presidential political forces\' merger into a new democratically orientated party. \"Our idea is to form a new party that would bring together the existing pro-presidential parties. There are some six-eight political parties in Kazakhstan which identify themselves as pro-presidential.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.