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KAZAKH OIL FIRM RAISES 7-MONTH OIL OUTPUT
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Kazakhstan\'s state oil and gas company Kazmunaigas (KMG) said on Thursday its oil production in the first seven months of 2006 rose 106,400 tonnes to 5.5 million tonnes from the same period of last year. KMG plans to float up to 40 percent of upstream subsidiary Kazmunaigas EP on a foreign stock market, possibly in London, and raise $2 billion through the offering later this year.KYRGYZ OMBUDSMAN TO SKIP CONFERENCE OVER U.S. PRESIDENT\'S COMMENT...
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Ombudsman Tursunbai Bakir-uulu told a news conference in Bishkek on August 16 that he will not attend an ombudsmen\'s conference in Iowa because of a recent comment by U.S. President George W.NEW TAJIK ISLAMIC PARTY LEADER CHOSEN
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Muhiddin Kabiri was formally chosen on August 14 to lead Tajikistan\'s Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP) in the wake of longtime leader Said Abdullo Nuri\'s death. An official meeting of senior party officials in Dushanbe approved the nomination of Kabiri to replace Nuri, who died on August 9 after a lengthy battle with cancer. The 40-year-old Kabiri is a former deputy chairman of the party and the sole remaining IRP representative in the lower house of the Tajik parliament.KAZAKHSTAN TURNS OVER UZBEK REFUGEE TO UN
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Kazakh authorities turned over on August 15 an Uzbek refugee to representatives of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), RFE/RL reported. The unnamed Uzbek national, who sought refuge in Kazakhstan after fleeing from his native Uzbekistan in 1999, was arrested by the Kazakh police in June after Uzbekistan presented an extradition request. UNHCR spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis stated on August 15 that the man would be immediately resettled in an undisclosed third country, citing concerns for his safety if he was returned to Uzbekistan.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.