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By Justine Walker (6/30/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: Tajikistan has long been a key transshipment state for Afghan drugs on-route to Russia and Europe. Its extensive continuous border with Afghanistan, destabilization from the civil war, and established ethnic and clan ties have combined to created an environment highly conducive to large-scale drug trafficking. Deadlock in bilateral talks earlier this year between Russia and Tajikistan resulted in the Russian government’s decision to remove the RFBS.
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By Jaba Devdariani (6/16/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: The conflict in South Ossetia, leading to the death of ca. 1,000 and the displacement of some 60,000 persons ended in a ceasefire in July 1992. A somewhat unorthodox ceasefire arrangement introduced a joint peacekeeping force (JPKF) composed of Georgian, South Ossetian and Russian elements.
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By Pavel Baev (6/16/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: The start for this race was back in September 1994 when Azerbaijan signed a contract on the development three oil fields with a BP-led consortium of Western companies. With hindsight, the investors would probably agree that the term ‘the deal of the century’ was a bit of wishful thinking, but their immediate concern ten years back was transportation. The hugely expensive and geopolitically risky plan for a 1000-mile pipeline connecting Baku via Tbilisi to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan (BTC) captured the imagination of politicians in Azerbaijan, Turkey and, crucially, the U.
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By Stephen Blank (6/16/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

BACKGROUND: By March 2004 it seemed clear that Russian troops and advisors were going to leave Tajikistan. Yet it also seemed that Tajik-Russian relations were good and improving. Key Tajik officials certainly made public statements to that fact and did so even into May, even granting the necessity of a base for Russian forces there.

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