By Nurshat Abubakirov (11/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

“Destructive forces interested in the escalation of the situation are trying to take advantage of this tragic event, playing with the emotions of the killed parliamentarian’s relatives and close friends by spreading misleading information about Prime Minister Felix Kulov’s and the Jogorku Kenesh’s involvement in this incident” was the official description of the situation given by the Prime Minister on 27 October. In a decree, the Prime Minister also required the municipalities, the ministries, and the law-enforcement agencies to take all the necessary measures in order to prevent the further complication of the situation.

Parliamentarian Tynychbek Akmatbaev, parliamentary staffer Talas Omorov, and the head of the penitentiary system Ikmatullo Polotov were on a tour inspecting the Novopokrovskaya prison colony #3 and the Moldovanovskaya colony #31 after reports of prison riots and murders.

By Zoya Pylenko (11/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Apart from traveling by road, one can fly to Badakhshan, usually with a small, 17-seat Antonov AN-28 plane, which tries to find its way through the Pamir mountains because it can’t fly over all the summits. But in winter, when the mountains are shrouded in clouds, the road is the only option available. And the road to Badakhshan is narrow and very rarely asphalted.

By Gulnara Ismailova (11/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The run-up to the November 6 parliamentary elections was supposed to see the homecoming of Rasul Guliyev. Guliyev was a vice-premier in the government in the early 1990s, and later became the Speaker of Parliament. Having left the post in 1996 after allegations of large-scale graft, Guliyev departed to self-imposed exile in the United States.