Publication

This issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst opens with four analytical articles on parliamentary elections in Abkhazia, Central Asian regional integration, the internal politics of the Chechen separatist movement and Kazakhstan-Kyrgyzstan economic cooperation. It also features four field reports on Tajikistan’s poverty reduction strategy, political dissent in Kyrgyzstan, opposition politics and democratization in Kazakhstan, and Japan’s interests in Central Asia. The final pages furnish a news digest on the Central Asia-Caucasus region.