Publication

This issue of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst opens with four analytical articles on the 2008 presidential election campaign in Armenia; oil and gas exploitation in Kazakhstan; the prospects for Moscow-Chechnya relations under a Dmitri Medvedev presidency; and Russia-Georgia relations in the aftermath of President Mikheil Saakashvili’s 2008 reelection. It also features four field reports on fighting human trafficking in Uzbekistan, espionage scandals in Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan rapprochement and energy shortages in Tajikistan. The final pages furnish a news digest on the Central Asia-Caucasus region.