News Digest
U.S. SUBMARINE ESCORTED FROM RUSSIAN WATERS
By empty (4/28/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian forces conducting exercises off the eastern coast of Kamchatka spotted an unwelcome spectator -- a Los Angeles-class U.S. nuclear submarine -- and escorted it out of Russia\'s territorial waters.RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CRITICIZES TURKMENISTAN FOR UNILATERAL ACTION ON CITIZENSHIP
By empty (4/28/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a press release criticizing Turkmenistan for its \"unilateral and hasty action\" in implementing a protocol ending dual citizenship of the two countries. The ministry pointed out that Russia has not yet ratified the document. There has been some criticism in the Russian media of the Russian government for allegedly abandoning the Russian-speaking population of Turkmenistan.TURKMENISTAN\'S ETHNIC RUSSIANS REPORTED TO BE IN PANIC OVER VISA
By empty (4/28/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Russian-speaking population of Turkmenistan is reported to be in a panic over President Saparmurat Niyazov\'s 22 April decree that revokes dual Turkmen-Russian citizenship and also revokes the right of individuals with dual citizenship to travel to Russia without visas. An NGO activist from Ashgabat who managed to get to Moscow told Memorial that housing prices dropped dramatically in the Turkmen capital after the announcement of the 10 April agreement between Niyazov and Russian President Putin on revoking the dual citizenship agreement. An apartment costing $9,000 in March could be bought for only $3,000 in April.ARMENIANS EXPRESS DISMAY OVER U.S. PRESIDENT\'S STATEMENTS ON ARMENIAN
By empty (4/28/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In a statement timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Armenian genocide that left more than 1.5 million Armenians killed in Ottoman Turkey in 1915, U.S.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.
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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.
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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.