Field Reports
GEORGIA PAINTS THE TOWN FOR PRESIDENT BUSH
By Kakha Jibladze (5/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Already before the visit took place, it seemed like Georgia was receiving immediate gratification. Literally, Tbilisi painted the town in preparation for Bush’s 20-hour stay in the city. All along the itinerary of American President’s planned route, buildings that hadn’t been painted for over a decade were splashed with bright pastel shades.OPPOSITION TRYING TO GAIN SOLID GROUND IN ARMENIA
By Grigor Hakobyan (5/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
During the scuffle, as some rally organizers attempted to break up the fight, a shot was fired, which wounded the leader of the youth wing of the New Times Party, Garegin Petrosyan. Petrosyan was rushed to the local hospital for emergency aid and later was transported to another hospital in the capitol city Yerevan. The gun used in the shootout was confiscated by rally organizers from an unidentified man and handed over to local police.KYRGYZSTAN HOSTS THOUSANDS OF UZBEK REFUGEES AFTER VIOLENT RIOTS IN ANDIJAN
By Erica Marat (5/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Andijan, Uzbekistan’s fourth largest city, is located forty kilometers from Kyrgyzstan and is the closest Uzbek city to Kyrgyzstan’s ‘southern capital’ Osh. Zumrat Salmorbekova, an NGO leader currently working in Batken, says the number of refugees reached 6,000. According to the Kyrgyz Ombudsman Tursunbai Bakir, if the tensions in Uzbekistan continue the number of Uzbek refugees might rise up to a million.GEORGIA: THE HONEYMOON IS OVER
By Kakha Jibladze (5/4/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A drop of a quarter of the voters would worry any politician, but most experts anticipated Saakashvili’s phenomenal support, which at a high point was estimated at 98% of the population-was doomed to fall. And, while it is easy to pinpoint the reason for people’s disillusion, it is much harder to address it.One of the main complaints is people anticipated a quick release from the hardships they have endured over the past dozen years.
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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.