Field Reports
LAKE SAREZ WARNING SYSTEM PROTECTS PAMIRIS FROM FLOODS
By Konstantin Parshin, Radio NIC, Tajikistan (11/22/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In 1911, a severe earthquake occurred in the Pamir mountains caused a massive landslide that turned into a natural dam, called Usoi, now measuring 1,500 meters wide that completely blocks the Bartang valley and formed what would eventually become known as Lake Sarez that is 60 kilometers long. The lake poses a major natural hazard for the whole of Central Asia. A possible collapse of the Usoi dam would destroy the infrastructure of the Amu Daria basin, inhabited by five million people.
EMIGRATION OF "RUSSIAN-SPEAKERS" FROM UZBEKISTAN
By Dr. Mikhail Degtiar (11/22/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Gaining independence with the fall of the USSR in 1991, the major and the most active fraction of the intelligentsia in Uzbekistan by the beginning of 1990s was composed of the so-called "Russian-speaking" part of the population. In Uzbekistan "Russian-speakers" accounted for only about 15%. "Russian-speaking" intelligentsia were developed in Uzbekistan by sending teachers, doctors, scientists and engineers for further education in special centers in major cities all over the USSR.
PESHAWAR SEMINAR ON CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES BETWEEN PAKISTAN, RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA
By Dr. Zahid Anwar, Center for Russian and Central Asian Area Studies, University of Peshawar, Pakistan (5/9/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Eminent scholars and academicians from Pakistan, the Russian federation, the People’s Republic of China, the United Kingdom and the Central Asian Republics gathered in the Area Study Center for Russia, China and Central Asia, University of Peshawar (Pakistan) on 8-9 November, 2000, to express their views at a two day international seminar on “Confidence Building Measures Between Pakistan, Russia, and Central Asia.”
The vice chancellor of the University of Peshawar Prof. Dr Qasim Jan inaugurated the seminar by emphasizing the importance of close economic ties between Pakistan, Central Asia, and Russia.
KYRGYZSTAN RAISES THE QUESTION OF MINE CLEARING ON THE KYRGYZ-UZBEK BORDER
By Gulzina Karym Kyzy (5/9/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Officials of Batken province administration of Kyrgyzstan met with officials of Ferghana province administration of Uzbekistan on 28 May, RFE/RL reported. The two sides discussed the situation on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border, specifically the situation regarding minefields layed by the Uzbekistan military. Kyrgyz officials addressed their Uzbek counterparts with the demand to clear the territories along the border of mines.
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