Field Reports
PRE-ELECTION MIRACLES IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Anonymous, Bishkek (11/8/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Expensive fireworks filled the air on the night after elections to celebrate the victory of Askar Akaev in Ala-Too Square. The man whom 74% of Kyrgyzstan’s population support and admire. The battle was won! Most of the Kyrgyz newspapers announced that fact with the headline, "Kyrgyzstan made its right choice for the continuation of democratic reforms.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BISHKEK CELEBRATES ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY
By Kadyr Toktogulov, Coordinator of Amnesty International Bishkek—Kyrgyzstan, sophomore at America (11/22/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Bishkek group of Amnesty International (AI) began its work on human rights in Bishkek one year ago to join the efforts with Amnesty International to strengthen its human rights mission worldwide. After only eight months of work, the Bishkek group received official recognition from the International Secretariat of Amnesty International and become a full Amnesty group. Amnesty International - Bishkek is based at American University in Kyrgyzstan where the most active and open-minded students in Kyrgyzstan study.
LAKE SAREZ WARNING SYSTEM PROTECTS PAMIRIS FROM FLOODS
By Konstantin Parshin, Radio NIC, Tajikistan (11/22/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In 1911, a severe earthquake occurred in the Pamir mountains caused a massive landslide that turned into a natural dam, called Usoi, now measuring 1,500 meters wide that completely blocks the Bartang valley and formed what would eventually become known as Lake Sarez that is 60 kilometers long. The lake poses a major natural hazard for the whole of Central Asia. A possible collapse of the Usoi dam would destroy the infrastructure of the Amu Daria basin, inhabited by five million people.
EMIGRATION OF "RUSSIAN-SPEAKERS" FROM UZBEKISTAN
By Dr. Mikhail Degtiar (11/22/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Gaining independence with the fall of the USSR in 1991, the major and the most active fraction of the intelligentsia in Uzbekistan by the beginning of 1990s was composed of the so-called "Russian-speaking" part of the population. In Uzbekistan "Russian-speakers" accounted for only about 15%. "Russian-speaking" intelligentsia were developed in Uzbekistan by sending teachers, doctors, scientists and engineers for further education in special centers in major cities all over the USSR.
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Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.
Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024.
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.