Field Reports
KYRGYZSTAN UNDER THE SPECTER OF ISLAMIC MILITANTS
By Gulzina Karym Kyzy (5/23/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Because of the awaited incursions of Islamic militants, the evacuation of local people from high mountain areas of the Batken province of Kyrgyzstan have begun. Servicemen of the Ministry of Extreme Situations have already moved the first group of settlers, which includes 4 families of shepherds and 300 sheep, from the most remote pastures of the province to a more secure place. The Ministry of Extreme Situations does not exclude the possibility of resettling several thousand locals from the six most dangerous ‘breakthrough areas’ of the Kyrgyz-Tajik border.
KYRGYZSTAN’S BORDER RIDDLE
By Maria Utyaganova, department of international Relations, American University of Kyrgyzstan (5/23/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The second half of this spring could be characterized as the period of unveiling different secret documents between Kyrgyzstan and its neighboring states. Just a month ago, at the end of April, the Bakiev-led government was forced to denounce the Kyrgyz-Uzbek secret memorandum on regulating a legal basis of the state borders delimitation between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The memorandum has provoked a lot of negative attitudes towards the government, the Prime Minister in particular, and its policies.
KYRGYZSTAN’S BORDER RIDDLE
By Maria Utyaganova, department of international Relations, American University of Kyrgyzstan (5/23/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The second half of this spring could be characterized as the period of unveiling different secret documents between Kyrgyzstan and its neighboring states. Just a month ago, at the end of April, the Bakiev-led government was forced to denounce the Kyrgyz-Uzbek secret memorandum on regulating a legal basis of the state borders delimitation between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The memorandum has provoked a lot of negative attitudes towards the government, the Prime Minister in particular, and its policies.
NO EDUCATION – PROSPEROUS FUTURE FOR TURKMENISTAN?
By Bakyt Meredov (5/23/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Last month, the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan suspended the money transfers through state banks to pay for part-time education abroad. It has further limited the access to education, the level of which has constantly been declining during the last decade, now outside the country.
The education reforms in the country have been fluctuating owing to the personal whims of the President.
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