Field Reports
TRYING TO FIGURE OUT NAMANGANI’S NEXT MOVE
By Konstantin Parshin, Radio NIC Tajikistan (6/7/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Uzbek Islamic militant leader Juma Namangani is causing great concern in Kyrgyzstan this spring. Two weeks ago some of the news agencies reported that Namangani along with 150-180 fighters had crossed the Tajikistan border and headed to Kunduz, Afghanistan. However, the Kyrgyzstan military forces are seriously preparing for an incursion of some 2,000 militants led by Namangani.
PROTESTORS IN KYRGYZSTAN THREATEN SELF-IMMOLATION
By Anna Kirey, American University-Kyrgyzstan student, department of Journalism (6/7/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Numerous news agencies have reported that three Kyrgyz protestors are taking the desperate act of self-immolation should the government refuse to release arrested opposition leader, Feliks Kulov, the chairman of Ar-Namys party and declare invalid the results of the February-March parliamentary elections. Since March 14, two days after the second round of elections were declared unfair by the OSCE and the other monitoring organization in the Kara-Buura district in Kyrgyzstan’s Talas region, protestors set out for Bishkek in quest of justice. The protestors have frequently faced arrest and have been moved to the city's Maksim Gorky Square, which is hidden by huge buildings away from view.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL -KYRGYZSTAN
By Elnura Osmonalieva, Student, Department of Journalism, American University-Kyrgyzstan (6/21/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Bishkek branch of Amnesty International was established in September 1999. It involves about twenty students from American University in Kyrgyzstan along with other students from Bishkek University of Humanities and Kyrgyz-Russian Slavonic University. The coordinator of the group, and also its founder is Ari Katz, a teacher and Coordinator of Student Affairs at American University--Kyrgyzstan.
GREEKS IN UZBEKISTAN
By Anonymous, Tashkent (6/21/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
There are many minority groups living in Uzbekistan including Russians, Jews and Koreans. But it is not widely known that Uzbekistan is also home to quite a considerable number of Greeks. Some of the Greek Uzbeks were brought to Central Asia in 1930s from the Black Sea region by order of Josef Stalin.
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Oped S. Frederick Starr, Putin's War In Ukraine and the Crimean War), 19fourtyfive, January 2, 2023
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Russia Needs Its Own Charles de Gaulle, Foreign Policy, July 21, 2022.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Rethinking Greater Central Asia: American and Western Stakes in the Region and How to Advance Them, June 2022
Oped Svante E. Cornell & Albert Barro, With referendum, Kazakh President pushes for reforms, Euractiv, June 3, 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell Russia's Southern Neighbors Take a Stand, The Hill, May 6, 2022.
Silk Road Paper Johan Engvall, Between Bandits and Bureaucrats: 30 Years of Parliamentary Development in Kyrgyzstan, January 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell, No, The War in Ukraine is not about NATO, The Hill, March 9, 2022.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, Kazakhstan’s Crisis Calls for a Central Asia Policy Reboot, The National Interest, January 34, 2022.
Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Starr & Albert Barro, Political and Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan Under President Tokayev, November 2021.