Field Reports
EARTHQUAKE IN TAJIKISTAN LEAVES HUNDREDS HOMELESS
By Suhrob Majidov (1/20/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On January 2, a 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit 20 villages in Vanj district, 230 kilometers east of Dushanbe and 80 kilometers north of Khorog, the region’s administrative capital, in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO). Hundreds of people became homeless in the subzero weather.BAKU CONCERNED OVER WEAKENING U.S. ENGAGEMENT
By Mina Muradova (1/20/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijani officials have recently expressed their criticism with U.S. policies, hinting at cooling relations between the two countries.CHINA, TURKMENISTAN, KAZAKHSTAN AND UZBEKISTAN LAUNCH TURKMENISTAN-CHINA GAS PIPELINE
By Chemen Durdiyeva (1/20/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On December 14, 2009, the presidents of China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan officially launched the Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline, which will pump five billion cubic meters (bcm) of blue fuel annually with a planned increase of up to 40 bcm by 2012. While the Russian gas giant Gazprom has been reluctant to reach a price agreement with Ashgabat, China is overtaking a large portion of the energy market in Central Asia and breaking Russia’s monopoly over Turkmenistan’s gas export routes. This 7,000 kilometer (4,349 miles) long gas pipeline taking Turkmen gas to China’s Xinjiang Province through the territory of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan was initiated by Turkmenistan’s past president Saparmurat Niyazov in 2006.PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN UZBEKISTAN
By Erkin Akhmadov (1/20/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Two rounds of parliamentary elections took place in Uzbekistan on December 27, 2009, and January 10, 2010. About 87.8 percent of the electorate voted in the first round, and 80 percent in the second.Visit also
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.