By empty (3/5/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Farda Asadov, who is the head of the Soros Foundation\'s Baku office, told a press conference in the Azerbaijani capital on 4 March that there is no truth to media reports and speculation that the foundation has provided funding to Azerbaijani opposition parties. Asadov said that in 2004 the foundation provided $2.8 million in funding for programs to develop civil society in Azerbaijan, and for the education and information sectors.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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