Field Reports
ECONOMIC BOOM AMID UNEASE IN XINJIANG
By Sureyya Yigit (7/26/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
This week witnessed both an agreement on Global Energy Security at the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg as well as a plan by Russia and China to build a pipeline to transport natural gas from Russia to the developing areas of coastal China through the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. These recent developments add more weight to the importance of energy security, though perhaps equally importantly is how this affects the internal balancing within states.ELECTRICITY TARIFFS RAISE SHARPLY IN GEORGIA
By Kakha Jibladze (7/26/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The increase in electricity tariffs is part politics and part simple economics. One of the largest factors is the higher gas prices Georgia now pays Gazprom. This year the cost of natural gas nearly doubled to over $100 for 1000 cubic meters.SLUM DWELLERS IN SOUTH KAZAKHSTAN DEFY GOVERNMENT RULING
By Marat Yermukanov (7/26/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The time-bomb which set in motion the spontaneous public outrage which escalated into mass disorder involving more than 1,500 residents of the Shanyrak residential area in the suburbs of Almaty was planted a year ago by a decision of the Almaty city government to rebuild the area, inhabited by more than 120,000 people. City officials announced their plans to demolish hundreds of privately owned houses in the area in order to make more space available for the construction of new roads and social facilities. It was a belated step to improve living conditions of the residents of the district.KYRGYZ BY-ELECTION FOR PARLIAMENT IN STALEMATE
By Nurshat Ababakirov (7/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The first by-election was held on April 9, and was a result of the shift of Adahan Madumarov, current Secretary of State, from the parliament to the government. This opened up the seat for a by-election. Sanjar Kadyraliev and Mamat Orozbaev reached the second round held on April 23.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.