Publication
29 Apr 2015
This issue includes articles on 1) how Russia's increased regulation of labor migration is set to hurt Central Asian economies; 2) Russia's effectively ending its participation in the Treaty of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe by withdrawing from its Joint Consultative Group on March 10, 2015; 3) the death of the Caucasus Emirate’s leader Aliaskhab Kebeko in April 2015, and the effect this might have on the militant jihadist organization; and 4) the strategies which Kazakhstan and its neighboring Central Asian states are using to deal with the multiple security and economic crises affecting their region. The issue also contains field reports on 1) the resignation of Kyrgyzstan's Prime Minister, Djoomart Otorbaev on in April 2015; 2) the extent to which the Islamic State is recruiting fighters from Georgia; 3) Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan's April 2015 visit to the Vatican; and 4) Azerbaijan's sanction by the International Board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) over the country's crackdowns on civil society.
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Author | Nurzhan Zhambekov, Richard Weitz, Emil Aslan Souleimanov, Jacob Zenn, Arslan Sabyrbekov, Eka Janashia, Erik Davtyan, Mina Muradova |
Series | CACI-SRSP Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst |
Issue | 8 |
Publisher | Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program (CACI-SRSP) |
Copyright | © 2015 Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program (CACI-SRSP) |