Field Reports
ASTANA STICKS TO MULTI-VECTOR OIL POLICY
By Marat Yermukanov (6/1/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
After a long series of hard negotiations, Kazakhstan’s state-owned oil producer Kazmunaygaz succeeded in purchasing an 8.33% share of the British BG company in the Kashagan oil field development project. In an apparent euphoric mood, the minister of energy and mineral resources Vladimir Shkolnik described the transaction as an “unprecedented deal in world practice” and remarked, as if casually, that Kazakhstan’s government did not resort to administrative leverages to pressure the British company into selling its stake in Kashagan, Kazakhstan’s largest oil field deposits ever discovered in the past 30 years.TURKMENBASHI FIRES FIRST DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
By Chemen Durdiyeva (6/1/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At the meeting, the General Prosecutor, Ms. Gurbanbibi Atajanova listed a number of individuals who got involved in the major crime of corruption. She announced that among the leading individuals in large-scale corruption was Yolly Gurbanmuradov, Deputy Prime Minister for the oil and gas sector, which constitutes the main source of economic growth in Turkmenistan.BAKU-TBILISI-CEYHAN OIL PIPELINE IS PUT INTO OPERATION
By Gulnara Ismailova (6/1/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Presidents of Turkey, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the U.S. Energy Secretary, the head of British Petroleum, as well as many other high-ranking officials from foreign countries came to Azerbaijan to participate in the opening ceremony, and together with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev started up the compressor to inject oil into the pipeline.HALF-HEARTED ANTI-DRUG EFFORTS BREED CORRUPTION IN KAZAKHSTAN
By Marat Yermukanov (5/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The stifling atmosphere of corruption is pervading every sphere of public life in Kazakhstan. Sadly enough, press reports more frequently mention representatives of law-enforcement bodies involved in corruption-related crimes. In socialist years a uniformed police officer was someone to be considered sacrosanct, an incarnation of integrity and high moral code.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.