Field Reports
KYRGYZSTAN’S ASSEMBLY EFFECTIVE IN NATIONAL UNITY
By Maria Utyaganova, student, American University in Kyrgyzstan, International Relations Department (8/16/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
"Unity, peace, interethnic consensus and agreement in our common home – Kyrgyzstan" was chosen as the slogan for the Assembly of Peoples of Kyrgyzstan sponsored Third Annual Kurultay" this year’s annual meeting in Bishkek of Assembly representatives with the representatives from the Kyrgyzstan government. The Assembly’s annual Kurultay has become the tradition. Today, the Assembly consists of 26 national-cultural centers and public communities.
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS BOMB OSH, KYRGYZSTAN
By Aziz Soltobaev, American University in Kyrgyzstan (8/16/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Five international terrorists were sentenced to long term imprisonment in Kyrgyzstan for organizing several terrorist acts in the Osh oblast in which several people were killed. On May 31, 1999, an explosion ripped through a bus full of passengers in Osh, Kyrygyzstan. Three women died from multiple wounds.
CENTRAL ASIA’S TAJIKISTAN-KYRGYZSTAN DRUG ROUTE
By Aziz Soltobaev, American University in Kyrgyzstan, Economics Department (8/30/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Kyrgyz Republic is planning to toughen its penalties for the transportation and distribution of drugs in Kyrgyzstan. Initiators of these additions to local legislation are calling for the introduction of the death penalty for drug traffickers. Kyrgyzstan has been flooded with drugs from Tajikistan as they enter the country from Afghanistan.
UZBEK YOUTHS RUMMAGE RAVAGES OF THEIR ECONOMY IN SEARCH OF JOBS
By Jennifer Balfour is a long-term educator is former-Soviet Central Asia (8/30/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
While youngsters in the west scour the Internet, rummage through newspapers and seek the advice of guidance counselors, for Uzbekistan’s youth it is every man for himself. Anyone who thinks the state will protect them in their pursuit of integrity and a job well done is doomed to disappointment and ruin. Careers are chosen these days not on the basis of professional ambition or denying oneself for the greater good of socialist humanity, but increasingly on the extra-curricular benefits accruable to an individual or his clan.
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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.