Field Reports
IDENTIFYING PRIORITIES: UZBEK GAS – FOR EXPORT
By Erkin Ahmadov (1/23/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
This winter is trying the Central Asians for endurance and resistance to cold. In Uzbekistan, temperatures of -10 degrees Celsius (15 Fahrenheit) during the day and -20 (-5 Fahrenheit) at night hold strong for over three weeks.
BERDIMUKHAMMEDOV SLAMS MASS MEDIA IN TURKMENISTAN
By Chemen Durdiyeva (1/23/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On January 19, President Gurbanguly Berdimukhammedov held a meeting with a wide audience of the representatives of mass media, art and culture in Turkmenistan. Addressing the participants of the session, Berdimukhammedov laid out major criticisms on the mass media’s lethargic role in propagating what he called the “new ideology†in Turkmenistan.
BAKIYEV REGIME SUPRESSES YOUNG CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISTS
By Erica Marat (1/23/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan’s civil society has been flourishing since the early 1990s. Today, it represents a diverse community of activists promoting democracy, human rights, and inter-ethnic peace in the country.
RUSSIA DECREASES IMMIGRATION QUOTA THREEFOLD IN 2008
By Erica Marat (1/9/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) has recently announced its plan to reduce the quota for labor migrants coming to Russia from six million in 2007 to two million in 2008. In larger cities, the quota will decrease even more, with Moscow accepting six times fewer migrants in the coming year. However, even last year’s quota of six million proved to be insufficient, as the number of FMS-registered migrants exceeded seven million by the end of 2007.
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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.