Field Reports
FORMER PRESIDENT’S SUPPORTERS CALL FOR KYRGYZSTAN’S PARTITION
By Joldosh Osmonov (5/13/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Supporters of the ousted President Bakiyev in southern Kyrgyzstan demand dividing the country into two autonomous states. The Interim Government condemned the initiative pointing at the absurdity of the idea, while law enforcement bodies promise to take “harsh measures within the law” against the instigators. Despite the fact that such a scenario is highly unlikely, it might gain wider support from the public in light of the new government’s failure to stabilize the situation in the southern region, experts say.
TOLL ROAD INTRODUCED IN TAJIKISTAN
By Suhrob Majidov (5/13/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tajikistan’s first toll road was opened on the route of the Dushanbe-Chanak highway on April 1, 2010. The road connects the capital city Dushanbe with Soghd province in the northern part of Tajikistan and ends at the border between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The tolling mechanism will be implemented by the company “Innovative Road Solution LTD”, from which all tolling equipment for the Dushanbe-Chanak road is rented by the Government of Tajikistan.
ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING IN UZBEKISTAN
By Erkin Akhmadov (5/13/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On May 1-4, 2010, the 43rd annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) board of governors took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. More than three thousand participants attended the meeting, including heads of government, chairmen of central banks, ministers of finance, representatives of business and science, and journalists. Tashkent was satisfied with the outcomes of the meeting in general, as they signed four credit contracts of over US$ 1.
ARMENIA IS SET TO AMEND ITS DEFAMATION LEGISLATION
By Vahagn Muradyan (5/13/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The ruling coalition parties in Armenia’s parliament have started decriminalization of libel and insult provisions in an attempt to regulate relations between media and public officials. The amendments to the Criminal and Civil Codes, passed in the first reading on March 18, abolish criminal liability for defamatory statements and set pecuniary compensation for victims of libel and insult. If passed, Armenia will join only a small number of countries in wider Europe that had decriminalized defamation – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Estonia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and the UK.
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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.