Field Reports
KYRGYZSTAN’S BORDER RIDDLE
By Maria Utyaganova, department of international Relations, American University of Kyrgyzstan (5/23/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The second half of this spring could be characterized as the period of unveiling different secret documents between Kyrgyzstan and its neighboring states. Just a month ago, at the end of April, the Bakiev-led government was forced to denounce the Kyrgyz-Uzbek secret memorandum on regulating a legal basis of the state borders delimitation between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The memorandum has provoked a lot of negative attitudes towards the government, the Prime Minister in particular, and its policies.
NO EDUCATION – PROSPEROUS FUTURE FOR TURKMENISTAN?
By Bakyt Meredov (5/23/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Last month, the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan suspended the money transfers through state banks to pay for part-time education abroad. It has further limited the access to education, the level of which has constantly been declining during the last decade, now outside the country.
The education reforms in the country have been fluctuating owing to the personal whims of the President.
TAJIKISTAN STILL SCARRED BY WAR, DROUGHT AND DRUGS
By Makhmud Yusupov (5/23/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Both the beard and the gun of a Mujahid are gone and a suit and tie have taken their place, along with a post in the government as Minister for Customs. And he is happy that he is no longer fighting. ‘I never wanted to fight’, says the former Mujahid, ‘but sometimes if you don’t fight you will be killed’.
BRANDED TRAITORS IN UZBEKISTAN
By By Christine Iskandar (6/6/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Having a ‘Wahhabi’ member of the family is not something Uzbeks speak openly about. In fact I only found out because the son in question called home. It was the first time the family had heard from him for over a year, and at last they knew that he was still alive.
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