News Digest
PRESIDENT OF TURKMENISTAN AND IRANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DISCUSSED THE ISSUES OF CASPIAN
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President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov met with Iranian foreign minister Manuchehr Muttagi on his official visit to Turkmenistan. During the meeting, the two sides discussed development of bilateral relations and mentioned that the trade turnover between the two countries makes $1 billion. The issues on status of the Caspian was also discussed at the meeting.GAZPROM SEES JOINT KAZAKH GAS VENTURE BY YEAR-END
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Top Gazprom managers said on Friday they planned to set up a joint venture with Kazakhstan by the end of this year to process gas from the Central Asian state\'s mammoth Karachaganak field in Russia. Earlier this year the Kazakh government gave up plans of building its own processing plant at the field and accepted Gazprom\'s offer to process gas in nearby Orenburg across the Russian border. \"We talked about the Orenburg gas processing plant where a joint venture will be set up,\" Gazprom Chief Executive Alexei Miller told reporters after meeting Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.SENIOR MEMBER OF AZERI ASSOCIATION IN RUSSIA MURDERED
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Businessman Mirgadzhi Guseinov, head of a regional branch of the All-Russia Azeri Congress, an association of ethnic Azeri organizations in Russia, was murdered outside his apartment block in Astrakhan on Friday, the Astrakhan prosecutor\'s office told Interfax. Set up in 2001, the Congress, the brainchild of former Azerbaijani president Heydar Aliyev, brought together Azeri organizations that already existed in Russia. (Interfax).UZBEKISTAN \'FACING OIL CRISIS\'
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Uzbek businessmen say the country\'s oil shortages will continue to worsen unless the government gives up its monopoly control over the oil industry. Most of the country is already short of petrol. Recent rises in world oil prices may be bringing Uzbekistan\'s oil problem to a crisis.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.