Publication

This issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst opens with four analytical articles on the collapse of public services and endemic instability in Kyrgyzstan, Georgia-Russia economic antagonism and the prospects for the Trans-Asia Railway Network (TAR). It also features four field reports on Uzbek and Kazakh efforts to prop up President Bakiyev’s regime in Kyrgyzstan, the November 2006 presidential elections in Tajikistan, the impact of Russia-Georgia tensions on Armenia, and presidential politicking in Azerbaijan. The final pages furnish a news digest on the Central Asia-Caucasus region.