Field Reports
ARMENIAN OPPOSITION SEEKS CONSOLIDATION
By Haroutiun Khachatrian (6/17/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On June 12, the leader of the radical non-parliamentary opposition of Armenia, the first President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosian, declared at a crowded rally in Yerevan that the political bloc led by him will not take active actions until September. The Armenian National Congress, a bloc composed of 18 parties and NGOs, was formed last year, after Ter-Petrosian’s defeat in the presidential elections on February 19. ANC terms the February 19 vote as rigged and does not recognize Serzh Sargsyan as the legitimate president.
THE RUSSIA – AFGHAN FORUM: A RUSSIAN MARSHAL PLAN FOR AFGHANISTAN?
By Roman Muzalevsky (6/17/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The forum bringing Russian and Afghan delegations together on May 14 in Moscow highlighted the need for Afghanistan to accelerate its economic development and engage Russia in its national politics. For Russia, the forum could become a platform for intensified involvement in regional economic development, more effective anti-drug trafficking initiatives, suppression of regional Islamic fundamentalism, and for limiting the U.S.
WEST FACES DIFFICULT CHOICES OVER ARMENIA
By Gayane Sargsyan (6/17/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In Armenia domestic politics and foreign policy aspirations are closely interconnected and the most recent mayoral elections in Yerevan on May 31 were indicative of this.
Both in Armenia and abroad, political observers ascribed a broader significance to the Yerevan City Council elections. Free and fair elections would first and foremost have produced a new system of administration in the capital, marking the start of a new electoral/political culture and would have indicated serious progress towards reinforcement of democratic mechanisms in Armenia.
RESETTLEMENT FOR THE ROGUN DAM RESERVOIR BEGINS IN TAJIKISTAN
By Alexander Sodiqov (6/3/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In late May 2009, Tajik authorities resettled the first 232 families from three villages in the projected inundation zone of the massive Rogun Dam. These more than one thousand people from Nurobod District in the rocky Rasht Valley were relocated to Dangara District, a cotton growing area in southern Tajikistan. The resettlers neither had an opportunity to stay in their native area nor could they choose where to move.
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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.