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CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS No. 6(42), 2006 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies 6(42) 2006 CA&CC Press® SWEDEN 1 No. 6(42), 2006FOUNDED AND PUBLISHEDCENTRAL ASIA AND BYTHE CAUCASUS INSTITUTE INSTITUTE O OR CENTRAL ASIAN AND STRATEGIC STUDIES O CAUCASIAN STUDIES THE CAUCASUS Registration number: 620720-0459 Registration number: M-770 State Administration for Ministry of Justice of Patents and Registration of Sweden Azerbaijan Republic PUBLISHING HOUSE CA&CC Press®. 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(U.S.A.) William FIERMAN Doctor of Political Science, Professor of Indiana University (U.S.A.) Paul GOBLE Senior Advisor, Voice of America (U.S.A.) Sergei GRETSKY Doctor, Chair of Central Asian Studies, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State (U.S.A.) Xing GUANGCHENG Doctor of Political Science, professor, Deputy Director of the Institute for East European, Russian and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (China) Alexander IGNATENKO Doctor of Philosophy, specialist in Islamic studies, leading expert of the Institute of Social Systems, Moscow State University, member of the Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations under the Russian Federation President (Russian Federation) Ashurboi IMOMOV Ph.D. (Law), assistant professor, head of the Department of Constitutional Law, Tajik National University (Tajikistan) Lena JONSON Doctor, senior researcher, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Sweden) Klara KHAFIZOVA Doctor of History, Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies, professor at the International Relations and Foreign Policy Department, Kainar University (Kazakhstan) Hasan KULIEV Doctor of Philosophy, professor, department head, Institute of Philosophy, AS of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan) Jacob M. LANDAU Professor of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) S. Neil MACFARLANE Professor, Director, Center for International Studies, The University of Oxford (Great Britain) Alexei MALASHENKO Doctor of History, professor, Scholar-in-Residence, Ethnicity and Nation-Building Program Co-Chair, The Carnegie Moscow Center (Russian Federation) Abbas MALEKI Dr., Director General, International Institute for Caspian Studies (Iran) Akira Ph.D., History of Central Asia and the Caucasus, Program Officer, The Sasakawa Peace MATSUNAGA Foundation (Japan) Roger N. McDERMOTT Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury (UK) Vitaly NAUMKIN Doctor of History, professor, Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies of RF (Russian Federation) Yerengaip OMAROV Professor, Rector of Kainar University, President of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan) Vladimer PAPAVA Doctor of Economics, professor, Corresponding member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Senior Fellow of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (Georgia) S. Frederick STARR Professor, Chairman, The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, The Johns Hopkins University (U.S.A.) The materials that appear in the journal do not necessarily reflect the Editorial Board and the Editors’ opinion Editorial Office: CA&CC Press AB Hubertusstigen 9. 97455 Luleå SWEDEN WEB ADDRESS: http://www.ca-c.org © Central Asia and the Caucasus, 2006 © CA&CC Press®, 3 2006 No. 6(42), 2006 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS Journal of Social and Political Studies No. 6(42), 2006 IN THIS ISSUE: ENERGY PROJECTS AND ENERGY POLICY Sergey Tolstov. ENERGY SECURITY IN THE INTERRELATIONS AMONG THE EU, RF, UKRAINE, AND CENTRAL ASIA .................................................... 7 Murat Laumulin. GAZPROM AS A TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATION AND CENTRAL ASIA. Part Two ........................................................................................ 19 RELIGION IN SOCIETY Leonid ISLAMIC POLITICAL AND Sjukijainen. LEGAL THOUGHT IN SEARCH OF ANSWERS TO NEW CHALLENGES ................................................................. 32 4 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS No. 6(42), 2006 Marian Abisheva, RELIGIOUS-POLITICAL EXTREMISM Timur IN CENTRAL ASIA: WHY AND Shaymergenov. HOW IT IS SPREADING ......................................................... 42 Ruslan Kurbanov. GLOBALIZATION OF MUSLIM CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE CAUCASUS: ISLAMIC CALL AND JIHAD ................................................... 55 Malkhaz GEORGIA AND THE GEOPOLITICS OF Matsaberidze. ORTHODOXY ..................................................................... 70 Mukhit Asanbaev. RELIGIOUS SITUATION IN KAZAKHSTAN: POTENTIAL CONFLICTS AND RISK FACTORS ..................................................................... 76 Alexander Krylov. RELIGION IN THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE OF THE REPUBLIC OF KYRGYZSTAN ........................................ 86 Zaid Abdulagatov. WAHHABISM AND JADIDISM IN ISLAMIC CONSCIOUSNESS IN DAGHESTAN: PARALLELS AND CONTRADICTIONS ............................................................. 92 Alexey Sukhov. POST-SOVIET RADICALIZATION OF ISLAM IN KYRGYZSTAN: HIZB UT-TAHRIR ................................... 102 Ikbaldjon THE ISLAMIC MOVEMENT OF Mirsayitov. UZBEKISTAN: DEVELOPMENT STAGES AND ITS PRESENT STATE ............................................. 110 REGIONAL POLITICS Serik Primbetov. INTEGRATION PROSPECTS IN CENTRAL ASIA ....................................................... 115 Nabi Ziadullaev. CENTRAL ASIA IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD: CURRENT TRENDS AND PROSPECTS ......................... 125 Sergey Diachenko. PARLIAMENTARISM IN KAZAKHSTAN: KEY TO THE COUNTRY’S DEMOCRATIZATION ........................ 134 5 No. 6(42), 2006 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS ETHNIC RELATIONS Guram Svanidze. NATIONAL MINORITIES IN GEORGIA: PROBLEMS OF DEFINITION AND LEGAL STATUS ........................................................................... 145 FOR YOUR INFORMATION The Special Feature section in the next issue will discuss: Central Asia and the Caucasus n Political Parties and Civil Society n Fifteen Years of Independence: the Central Asian and Caucasian Countries Sum Up the Political and Economic Results of This Period n China’s Policy in Central Eurasia: Specifics and Prospects 6 CENTRAL ASIA AND THE CAUCASUS No. 6(42), 2006 ENERGY PROJECTS AND ENERGY POLICY ENERGY SECURITY IN THE INTERRELATIONS AMONG THE EU, RF, UKRAINE, AND CENTRAL ASIA Sergey TOLSTOV Senior Fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine) n the last few years, energy transit and long- state and corporate egotism to come to terms with term energy supply issues have come to the each other in order to balance their highly var- I fore on the international scene. The reasons ied interests. are obvious: Europe and North America are con- Seen as a possibility, disrupted energy sup- suming increasingly larger amounts of energy, ply and the resultant energy deficit as a whole have while the prospect of oil, natural gas