News Digest
AZERBAIJAN APPROVES RUSSIAN LUKOIL SALE
By empty (4/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijani authorities on 24 April gave their go-ahead for LUKoil\'s sale of its 10 percent stake in a consortium led by British Petroleum (BP) to develop the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli offshore oil field. According to officials of the Azerbaijani State Oil Company SOCAR, LUKoil is selling its share to the Japanese firm Inpex for $1.375 billion.KYRGYZ MILITARY OFFICIAL EXPECTS INTEREST IN RUSSIAN MILITARY CONTRACTS
By empty (4/25/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyz Defense Ministry press service head Merbek Koilubaev predicted that Kyrgyz citizens will want to serve in the Russian armed forces on a contract basis now that Russia has decided to accept volunteers from other CIS countries. Koilubaev said he expects the Russian air base that is being set up at Kant in northern Kyrgyzstan will attract Kyrgyz military pilots. He said he expects there will be volunteers from other branches of the military as well.CHECHEN SECURITY CHIEF DENIES RUMORED ATTACK ON KADYROV
By empty (4/25/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen Security Council Secretary Rudnik Dudaev rejected on 25 April as untrue a report posted on kavkazcenter.com and chechenpress.com that administration head Akhmed-hadji Kadyrov was severely injured in an attack on his car the previous evening.TAJIK PARTY CALLS FOR CANCELLATION OF REFERENDUM
By empty (4/25/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Saying that if Tajikistan\'s Constitution can be changed so can decisions of the parliament, the Tajik Democratic Party has issued a statement calling for the cancellation of the referendum on constitutional amendments scheduled for June. The Majlisi Namoyandagon (parliament) approved holding the referendum on a series of amendments that are supposed to modernize the constitution but which have generated a storm on the political scene. The most controversial of the amendments would lift the restriction that a president may serve only one seven-year term in office.Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, "Promise and Peril in the Caucasus," AFPC Insights, March 30, 2023.
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Putin's War In Ukraine and the Crimean War), 19fourtyfive, January 2, 2023
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Russia Needs Its Own Charles de Gaulle, Foreign Policy, July 21, 2022.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Rethinking Greater Central Asia: American and Western Stakes in the Region and How to Advance Them, June 2022
Oped Svante E. Cornell & Albert Barro, With referendum, Kazakh President pushes for reforms, Euractiv, June 3, 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell Russia's Southern Neighbors Take a Stand, The Hill, May 6, 2022.
Silk Road Paper Johan Engvall, Between Bandits and Bureaucrats: 30 Years of Parliamentary Development in Kyrgyzstan, January 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell, No, The War in Ukraine is not about NATO, The Hill, March 9, 2022.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, Kazakhstan’s Crisis Calls for a Central Asia Policy Reboot, The National Interest, January 34, 2022.
Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Starr & Albert Barro, Political and Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan Under President Tokayev, November 2021.