News Digest
KYRGYZSTAN WANTS THE U.S. TO PAY MORE FOR AIR BASE
By empty (11/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan is drafting a new agreement on the location of the anti-terror coalition\'s air base. It requires the U.S.KYRGYZ PRESIDENT ASKS NEW HEAD OF PENAL SYSTEM TO ESTABLISH ORDER
By empty (11/1/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At a meeting with newly appointed prison-system head Kapar Mukeev in Bishkek on 31 October, President Kurmanbek Bakiev charged him with restoring order in the penal system, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. The murder of parliamentary deputy Tynychbek Akmatbaev at a penal colony outside Bishkek on 20 September sparked demonstrations recently in the capital; the former head of the prison system, Ikmatullo Polotov, later died from wounds sustained during the incident that resulted in Akmatbaev\'s death. Mukeev told the president that work is under way to stabilize the situation.KAZAKHSTAN AIMS AT RANKING AMONG 50 MOST DEVELOPED STATES
By empty (10/31/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan is setting the aim of being put on the list of 50 most developed countries, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said on Monday. According to the president, “time is coming when the growth of the Kazakh economy makes it possible to set principally new tasks for the modernization of the society and the state”. Over the past seven years economy has been growing nine to ten percent a year on the average.OFFICIAL SAYS U.S. \'ACTIVELY REVIEWING\' POSSIBILITY OF SANCTIONS AGAINST UZBEKISTAN
By empty (10/31/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
31 OctoberDaniel Fried, U.S. assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, told a congressional committee in Washington on 27 October that the United States is still considering imposing sanctions on Uzbekistan, Reuters reported.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.