Field Reports
KYRGYZSTAN RESTRICTS FREEDOM OF SPEECH
By Aziz Soltobaev, American University in Kyrgyzstan (2/27/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On January 14, vice Prime Minister Nikolay Tanaev signed a governmental decree that contradicts the most important democratic reforms in Kyrgyzstan during the last decade. The Government justifies the enactment of the decree “On some issues of publishing” through the need to combat the penetration of the ideology of extremist organizations, especially Hizb-ut-Tahrir, claiming that it directly follows from Kyrgyz Republic’s duties to the antiterrorist Coalition and to the international community of countering international terrorism.
The Decree obliges the Interior affairs Ministry and the customs authorities to ensure strict control and registration of the import to the Kyrgyz Republic of typographical, polygraph, and of other printing equipment.
AZERBAIJAN EXPECTS TO BECOME ASSOCIATED MEMBER OF NATO PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY
By Gulnara Ismailova (2/27/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At the beginning of the 1992, NATO officials actively used the changes in the political situation on the European continent to expand their influence in Central and Eastern Europe. Partnership for Peace (PfP) was taken as basis for that policy, and was approved in January 1994 during the winter session of the NATO Council. In May 1994, Azerbaijan signed the framework agreement on joining PfP.
NUGZAR SADJAYA, SHEVARDNADZE’S CLOSEST CONFIDANT, COMMITS SUICIDE
By Irakly Areshidze (2/27/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Nugzar Sadjaya, the Chairman of Georgia’s National Security Council and President Eduard Shevardnadze’s closest ally and confidant, apparently shot himself in his office at the State Chancellery at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Monday, 25 February 2002, local time.
THE TAJIK “SCOOP BOOM”
By Lola Gulomova (2/27/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In recent months, the capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, has been experiencing something extremely unusual, a flood of journalists arriving to the city. On the way to Afghanistan, once again a center of attention of global politics, reporters stopped by the hundreds in this forgotten mountain city to prepare the last logistics and documentation for their journey.
By mid-October, more than 3,000 foreign journalists had arrived in Dushanbe, generating the highest revenue stream to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the ten years of Tajikistan’s independence.
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