Category: Volume 3, Isuue 21, 2003

THE YEZIDI KURDS AND ASSYRIANS OF GEORGIA: THE PROBLEM OF DIASPORAS AND INTEGRATION INTO CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

Iraklii CHIKHLADZE Giga CHIKHLADZE Iraklii Chikhladze, Executive Director, International EuroKavkazAsia Association (Tbilisi, Georgia) Giga Chikhladze, Executive Director, Profile Journal (Tbilisi, Georgia) We have deliberately selected the Assyrians and the Yezidi Kurds from among numerous ethnic minorities living in Georgia as a subject of this article because both have no independent national-autonomous entities except their autonomies in the…

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THE MOUNTAIN JEWS IN THE CAUCASUS: CERTAIN ASPECTS OF ETHNIC IDENTIFICATION

Igor SEMENOV Igor Semenov, Ph.D. (Hist.), researcher, Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography, Daghestanian Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences (Makhachkala, Russia) The Mountain Jews formed an individual sub-ethnic group in the Eastern Caucasus (on the territories of Daghestan and Azerbaijan). They use the so-called Jewish-Tat language, based on a Middle Persian dialect, that includes…

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REGULATION OF THE SECURITIES MARKET IN UZBEKISTAN

Mannon ALIEV Mannon Aliev, Ph.D. (Econ.), Vice-President of the CIS Association of Banking Institutions, Director of the Higher School of Business of the Academy of State and Social Construction under the President of Uzbekistan After the Soviet Union collapsed and Uzbekistan gained its independence, the country’s government set its sights on building a democratic state…

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TAJIKISTAN’S HYDROPOWER RESOURCES

Georgi PETROV Georgi Petrov, Ph.D. (Technology), advisor to the republic’s power engineering minister (Dushanbe, Tajikistan) The U.N. has declared 2003 the International Year of Freshwater. This is because of its immense importance for the whole of mankind, since water is the wellspring of all life on earth. And in Tajikistan water is also the wellspring…

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KAZAKHSTAN: THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF ITS TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS

Rubik YEGORIAN Marina OGANESIAN Anna MANVELIAN Rubik Yegorian, President, E. Yegorian Center for Strategic Research; infrastructure expert at the TRADEMCO (Greece); assistant professor, Department of International Relations, Erevan State University (Erevan, Armenia) Mariana Aganesian, Senior researcher, E. Yegorian Center for Strategic Research (Erevan, Armenia) Anna Manvelian, Student, Department of International Relations, G. Acharian Erevan University…

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ECONOMIC INTERESTS OF CENTRAL ASIAN STATES: IDENTIFICATION PROBLEMS

Talaybek KOYCHUMANOV Talaybek Kaychumanov, D.Sc. (Econ.), former minister of economics and finance, Kyrgyz Republic; professor, World Economy Department, Kyrgyz-Russian (Slavic) University (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan) In the book The Quality of Growth the World Bank published in 2001 it is pointed out that in the 1990s the developing countries became more open, the trade/GDP ratio increased, protectionism in many…

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EURASIAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY: THORNY PATH OF DEVELOPMENT

Rafael ULTANBAEV Rafael Ultanbaev, Ph.D. (Econ.), leading researcher, Center for Foreign Economic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) What Unites the EurAsEC Countries Integration within the EurAsEC framework rests on the coinciding basic interests of its member states in their awareness of the need to ensure sustainable socioeconomic development and security, and to find…

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CENTRAL ASIAN COOPERATION: TOWARD TRANSFORMATION

Natalia USHAKOVA Natalia Ushakova, Ph.D. (Econ.), chief researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Center for Foreign Economic Research (Moscow, Russia) The history of the subregional structure that unites Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan and was named the Central Asian Cooperation Organization (CAC) on 28 February, 2002 dates back to the beginning of the 1990s.…

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POLEMICAL NOTES ABOUT THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM IN CHECHNIA: WAS IT ANOTHER KHASAVIURT?

Sergey MARKEDONOV Sergey Markedonov, Ph.D. (Hist.), head, Department of Ethnic Relations Problems, Institute of Political and Military Analysis (Moscow, Russia) The so-called Chechen question has already produced mountains of books and other writings the authors of which, their diverse theoretical, methodological, and political positions apart, are driven by the common aim—to find the best way…

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AZERBAIJAN AFTER THE FIRST DECADE OF CAPITALISM

Alec RASIZADE Alec Rasizade, Senior associate, Historical Research Center in Washington (U.S.A.) After the demise of the U.S.S.R., Azerbaijan was relegated to the category of a third-world nation. The country is currently in the process of so-called “transition period” during which it has actually moved backward rather than forward since the beginning of reforms. This…

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