Field Reports
SCANDAL ON THE ILLEGAL EXPORT OF ORGANS TO GERMANY IS FLARING UP
By Aziz Soltobaev (9/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An agreement on Cooperation between the Kyrgyz State Medical Academy (KSMA) and the clinic of Gunter von Haggens was signed in 1996. According to the agreement, a specially created institute of plastification (“Plastinatsiya institute”) under KSMA had started to supply human corpses, and getting training aids in turn. Until the year 2000, von Haggens properly sent back corpses received from Kyrgyzstan and processed in his clinic, which had taken their place in the museum of the institute of plastification.TENSIONS AGAIN RISING IN NORTHWESTERN AZERBAIJAN
By Gulnara Ismailova (9/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The situation in this region deteriorated once before, in the summer of 2001. Then from June to September 2001, members of an illegal armed grouping led by Haji Magomedov conducted armed strikes on police posts and patrol stations in Zaqatala and Balakan. During this period, the gangs killed 4 policemen and 2 civilian inhabitants, and also injured 10 law enforcement officers.KAZAKHSTAN INITIATES DIALOGUE BETWEEN RELIGIONS
By Marat Yermukanov (9/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Talking to journalists in Astana on September 20, deputy foreign minister Mukhtar Tleuberdin said, that Kazakhstan, as a country setting example of peaceful coexistence of as many as 40 confessions for other nations, had every moral right to hold the Congress of World Religions. The congress, scheduled for September 22-24, will mark, as the deputy foreign minister stressed, a significant event in enforcing the international standing of Kazakhstan. The most highlighted point of this event is the open dialogue between as different world religions as Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism.SITUATION WITH MALARIA REMAINS SERIOUS IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Gulnara Karim kyzy (9/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Among the reasons for the worsening of the epidemic in Kyrgyzstan is the negative situation in regions close to the borders of Tajikistan, close contacts over the border, and the intensive migration of the local population. Tajikistan has witnessed a malaria outbreak, and the disease was registered in 38 districts of the country, which is one third of its territory. The number of infected people there exceeded 1,500 people.Visit also
Staff Publications
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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.