Field Reports
KYRGYZSTAN CLOSES BORDERS WITH CHINA
By Aijan Baltabaeva (6/4/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Should that happen, the state budget cannot sustain the financial load of a struggle against the SARS epidemic. China has spent over 185 million dollars for this purpose. The Kyrgyz Health Care Ministry does not have any special equipment for atypical pneumonia diagnosis, it even experiences a scarcity of protective costumes for doctors.AZERBAIJANI-IRANIAN RELATIONS ENDANGERED AFTER RUSSIAN PUBLICATION
By Fariz Ismailzade (6/4/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijani officials were quick to refute these claims. \"The information published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta about Baku\'s agreement to allow its territory for an attack on Iran is nonsense. The appearance of such kind of information in the Russian press is a political order of some interested circles\", said Vilayet Guliyev, the Foreign Minister of the country.NEW ELECTION CODE PASSED IN AZERBAIJAN
By Gulnara Ismailova (6/4/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The law also stipulates the principles of forming election commissions within the transition period. The document is an altered version of the one proposed by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. In the modified version, the representation of the opposition in the election commissions was reduced.KAZAKHSTAN CLOSES THE DOOR TO CHINA AS SARS PANIC SPREADS
By Marat Yermukanov (5/21/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Those who first sounded alarm bells alerting the public to the threat of a horrible pneumonia epidemic were journalists. Their eye-witness reports from East Asian countries, unlike official sources, depicted the true scale of the SARS epidemic. Media accounts bordered on direct accusations of officials for criminal neglect.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.