PUBLICATION: Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 1 November 2006

Highlights: This Analyst issue’s feature article by Dmitry Shlapentokh analyzes the Kondopoga riots in Karelia against ethnic Caucasians, and whether they are a portent of things to come. In Analytical Articles, Cohen and Irwin discuss Turkey’s continued lynchpin role in Eurasian pipeline politics; Kevin Leahy puts the Russian idea of salvaging the North Caucasus by private investment into question; and Stephen Blank studies the implications of Kyrgyzstan’s weakness on Central Asia’s stability. Field reports feature articles on Tajikistan’s upcoming presidential elections; the failure of warring sides in Kyrgyz politics to meet; the Georgian opposition’s return to parliament; and the implications of a HIV scandal in Southern Kazakhstan.

NOTE: NEW SILK ROAD PAPERS PUBLISHED:

“THE STATE-CRIME NEXUS IN CENTRAL ASIA: STATE WEAKNESS, ORGANIZED CRIME AND CORRUPTION IN KYRGYZSTAN AND TAJIKISTAN”

By Erica Marat, 138 pages. Download at:
http://www.silkroad studies.org/ new/docs/ Silkroadpapers/ 0610EMarat. pdf

“MINORITIES AND THE STATE IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS: ASSESSING THE PROTECTION OF
NATIONAL MINORITIES IN GEORGIA AND AZERBAIJAN”
By Johanna Popjanevski, 85pp. Download at:
http://www.silkroad studies.org/ new/docs/ Silkroadpapers/ 0609Popjanevski. pdf


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The 1 November issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst (Volume 8, no. 21) is
now online at
http://www.cacianal yst.org. The PDF version of the entire issue of the 1
November CACI Analyst is available at:
http://www.cacianal yst.org/issues/ 20061101Analyst. pdf

Full contents:

Feature Article

THE KONDOPOGA RIOTS: THE SIGN OF THINGS TO COME?
Dmitry Shlapentokh
http://www.cacianal yst.org/view_ article.php? articleid= 4552

Analytical Articles

TURKEY: A LINCHPIN IN PIPELINE POLITICS
Ariel Cohen and Conway Irwin
http://www.cacianal yst.org/view_ article.php? articleid= 4553

SALVAGING THE NORTH CAUCASUS BY INVESTMENTS: SURKOV’S LEAP OF LOGIC
Kevin Daniel Leahy
http://www.cacianal yst.org/view_ article.php? articleid= 4554

KYRGYZSTAN’S WEAKNESS AND CENTRAL ASIA’S INSECURITY
Stephen Blank
http://www.cacianal yst.org/view_ article.php? articleid= 4555

Field Reports

TAJIKISTAN PREPARING FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
Zoya Pylenko
http://www.cacianal yst.org/view_ article.php? articleid= 4556

MEETINGS BETWEEN PRESIDENT AND OPPOSITION IN KYRGYZSTAN
FAILED TO MATERIALIZE
Nurshat Ababakirov
http://www.cacianal yst.org/view_ article.php? articleid= 4557

GEORGIAN OPPOSITION SUSPENDS BOYCOTT OF PARLIAMENT
Kakha Jibladze
http://www.cacianal yst.org/view_ article.php? articleid= 4558

HIV SCANDAL IN SOUTH KAZAKHSTAN REVEALS POOR MEDICAL STANDARDS
Marat Yermukanov
http://www.cacianal yst.org/view_ article.php? articleid= 4559

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The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a bi-weekly publication of the Central
Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Center affiliated
with Johns Hopkins University-SAIS and Uppsala University, Sweden.

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