News Digest
AZERBAIJANI OFFICIAL REPORTS ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM...
By empty (12/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The head of the Azerbaijani state committee on religious organizations, Rafiq Aliyev, reported on 21 December on the state of religious freedom in the country. According to the official, the government has officially registered some 335 different religious groups, consisting of 307 various Islamic and 28 undefined groups. Another 10 \"religious communities\" have submitted documents as part of the application process for official registration.KAZAKH FIRM JOINS FTSE FAVOURITES
By empty (12/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan copper mining firm Kazakhmys has joined London\'s benchmark FTSE 100 share index, lining up alongside favourites like BP, Barclays and Boots. It is the first former Soviet bloc company to join the index, but is one of a growing number of firms from the region to list its shares in London. Since its October listing, Kazakhmys\' shares have risen almost 22%.RFE/RL TASHKENT BUREAU LOSES ACCREDITATION
By empty (12/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In a 12 December letter, Uzbekistan\'s Foreign Ministry informed RFE/RL acting President Jeff Trimble that it has denied the Tashkent bureau of RFE/RL\'s Uzbek Service an extension of its accreditation. The letter accused RFE/RL of violating Uzbek legislation by employing the services of stringers who \"engage in journalist activity without accreditation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.\" The ministry also suspended the accreditation of four RFE/RL Uzbek Service correspondents who held individual accreditation.TATAR YOUTH ORGANIZATION WARNS AGAINST RUSSIFICATION
By empty (12/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Tatar youth organization Liberty (Azatlyk) met in Naberezhnie Chelny on 10 December and passed a resolution criticizing what it called President Putin\'s policies that are promoted by unnamed politicians and commentators and aimed at Russifying the peoples of the Russian Federation. The document said that Putin\'s efforts to foster a single national identity for all the peoples of the federation includes promoting the \"leading role of the [Great] Russian nation\" and language to the detriment of the identities, languages, and cultures of other nations and denying those nations the \"right to decolonization and self-determination.\" The declaration suggested that the Tatars have \"for centuries\" worked for the benefit of the \"Russian empire.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.