Field Reports
PRO-OPPOSITION JOURNALIST FOUND GUILTY IN YEREVAN COURT
By Vahagn Muradyan (2/3/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On January 19, Nikol Pashinyan, editor-in-chief of pro-opposition Haikakan Zhamanak Daily, was sentenced to seven years in prison for organizing mass disorders during the opposition protests on March 1-2, 2008, following the disputed presidential election in February 2008. At least 10 people died and hundreds were injured in the clashes between government forces and protesters who challenged the official results that gave victory to current president Serzh Sargsyan. Pashinyan, an active supporter of former president Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s bid to challenge Sargsyan’s planned ascension to power, went into hiding and turned himself in on July 1, 2009.
TAJIKISTAN SEEKS ALTERNATIVE DESTINATIONS FOR ITS LABOR MIGRANTS
By Alexander Sodiqov (2/3/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Speaking to journalists on January 7, Tajikistan’s Migration Service chief Safiallo Devonaev said the government is strengthening efforts to diversify destinations for the country’s surplus labor. Already this year about 1,000 physicians and nurses from Tajikistan will get jobs in Saudi Arabia under an agreement reached in November 2009. They can soon be followed by engineers, drivers and construction workers.
WHO BENEFITS FROM THE STATUS QUO IN TURKISH-ARMENIAN RELATIONS?
By Armen Grigoryan (2/3/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Soon after signing the Turkish-Armenian protocols in October 2009, Turkish officials asserted that their ratification would depend on developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution process, i.e. the return of the territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani control.
REMOVAL OF SOVIET MONUMENTS IN UZBEKISTAN
By Erkin Akhmadov (2/3/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On January 12, Tashkent held an opening ceremony for a new monument called “An oath to the Motherland” (“Vatanga Kasamyod”). The opening ceremony was held on the eve of the Defenders of the Motherland Day. Apparently, the new monument replaced the older one dedicated to “A defender of the southern borders of the Soviet Union”.
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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.