Field Reports
KAZAKHSTAN’S SEMIPALATINSK RELIEF AND REHABILITATION PROGRAM
By Richard Dion (3/15/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In mid-1997, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbeyev addressed the UN General Assembly on Environmental questions, requesting the international community to examine more in depth the nuclear legacy of Semipalatinsk in northeast Kazakhstan. The region was the main Soviet testing site, undergoing 470 atmospheric, surface and underground tests over a 40-year period. The testing site was closed shortly after Kazakhstani independence.
WILL FIGHTING RETURN TO BATKEN, KYRGYZSTAN THIS SPRING?
By Gulnara Kasmali, Biskek artist and her husband Muratbek Jumali, Director, Children’s Arts Schoo (3/15/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A soldier along the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border is not very positive about the prospects for war in the spring. He believes the border is still a very dangerous area and would even take bets from anyone claiming that it will be peaceful this year. Even normal infantry soldiers who participated in the war last year can see that the local population of Batken is living like beggars.
KIMEP PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH CENTER, ALMATY
By Dr. Raisa A. Ayazbekova, Coordinator, Public Policy Research Center at KIMEP (3/29/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Public Policy Research Center at Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research (KIMEP) in Almaty, Kazakhstan was established in September 1998. The Center is KIMEP’s think tank aimed at stimulating research, contributing to disciplinary knowledge, building potential within the local faculty and student body, and serving as a research link to other institutions in Central Asia and abroad.
The central objectives of the Center are to conduct survey studies on social, economic and political issues; organize conferences and seminars on national, regional and international levels; and establish collaborative research projects with foreign research centers.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY—BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Anna Kirey is a Journalism student at American University of Kyrgyzstan (3/29/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
"We started from a desk, a chair and six books. We have come a long way," writes Provost Camilla Sharshekeeva one of the founders of American University in Kyrgyzstan (AUK). Founded in 1993 as the Kyrgyz-American Faculty at Kyrgyz State National University with forty students enrolled in two majors, AUK now is an independent educational institution with 700 students and eleven majors.
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Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.