Field Reports
NEW FOREIGN MINISTER TO REVITILIZE AZERBAIJAN’S DIPLOMACY?
By Elin Suleymanov (4/21/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In fact, this could be a welcome sign of President Aliyev’s efforts to bring more professionals and technocrats to positions of leadership. The 44-year old Mamedyarov is a career diplomat, who rose through the ranks of the ministry he now heads. A graduate of the Kyiv Institute of International Relations in Ukraine and once a visiting researcher at Brown University in Providence, he is one of the few professionally-trained Azerbaijani diplomats.DISRUPTED MARCH IN SUPPORT OF FELIX KULOV
By Aisha Aslanbekova (4/21/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Lately the issue of releasing Felix Kulov, imprisoned on reportedly fabricated and politically motivated charges of abuse of authority, has been actively raised in Kyrgyzstan. Members of the Ar-Namys party announced that in the beginning of June Kulov may request a conditional discharge and that he could be released from jail in June this year. There have also been sayings that Kulov is politically active and intends to participate in the presidential elections in 2005.KYRGYZSTAN OPENLY REFORMS PENITENTIARY SYSTEM IN SUPPORT OF CIVIL SOCIETY
By Aziz Soltobaev (4/21/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In 2002, the Prison Service was transferred from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Ministry of Justice, through this demilitarizing the system. It is two years since the Kyrgyz government made the penitentiary system open, and dramatic reforms were started. Civil society presented by NGO’s, international organizations and civilians are actively involved in process of reforming penitentiary system.ANNA POLTIKOVSKAYA SPEAKS OUT ON CHECHNYA
By Maral Madi (4/7/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian forces use extensive brutality in Chechnya, hiding behind the smokescreen of the international war against terrorism. The second Chechen war, she argued, is very cynical. It has been going on for four and a half years, longer than the Second World War in Russia.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.