Publication

This issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst opens with a feature article on rebuilding Kazakhstan’s agricultural sector. Next, it presents three analytical articles on pro-Moscow Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov’s stake in the 2008 Russian presidential election, rising nationalist sentiments in Russia and politics in Kyrgyzstan. It also includes four field reports on the nationalization of foreign investments in Uzbekistan, the prospects for the World Bank/IMF Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative in Kyrgyzstan, violence in South Ossetia and prime ministerial politics in Kyrgyzstan. The final pages furnish a news digest on the Central Asia-Caucasus region.