Field Reports
MEDVEDEV MAKES ANOTHER BID TO REACH BREAKTHROUGH IN NAGORNO KARABAKH
By Haroutiun Khachatrian (10/29/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The official visit of Russian president Dmitri Medvedev to Armenia on October 20-21 had one, serious political result (perhaps the only one): the proposal to the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan to meet in Moscow in an attempt to find a way out of the deadlock in the Nagorno Karabakh issue. This was in line with the policy of Moscow to consolidate its positions in the South Caucasus through expanding its influence along the axis Baku-Yerevan-Ankara.
UZBEKISTAN OPTS FOR FOOD CROPS PRODUCTION
By Erkin Akhmadov (10/29/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On 20 October 2008, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan adopted the presidential decree “On Measures for Optimizing Cultivated Areas and Increasing Food Crops Production”. The decree largely aims to increase the amount of land growing food crops by decreasing the volumes of cotton crops.
KYRGYZSTAN: CAN NEW TAX CODE BOOST BUSINESS?
By Nurshat Ababakirov (10/29/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On October 20, President Kurmanbek Bakiev signed a new Tax Code, which will come into force this January. The government believes it will boost the economy by decreasing prices of domestic products, stifle corruption, and, importantly, pull national business out of the illegal market.
EXPLOSION IN A BAKU MOSQUE: INTERESTED PARTIES AND POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS
By Alman Mir Ismail (8/20/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
What was feared the most in Azerbaijan happened. On August 17, a grenade was thrown into the most controversial mosque in the capital city of Baku, the Abu Bekr mosque.
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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.