News Digest
PUTIN STRESSES NEED TO AVOID CONFLICT WITH U.S.
By empty (4/3/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Vladimir Putin on 3 April told journalists that Russia is deliberately avoiding direct involvement in recent international crises and that he will make every effort to avoid Russia\'s involvement \"in any form\" in the current crisis in Iraq. Putin emphasized that the United States is Russia\'s largest trading partner, with bilateral trade reaching $9.2 billion last year.AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT TARGETS CORRUPTION IN INDUSTRIAL CENTER
By empty (4/3/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Heidar Aliev traveled to Sumgait, an industrial center northeast of Baku, on 3 April to address a session of the municipal council. Aliev harshly criticized prominent local figures, including Sumgait Mayor Tavakkul Mamedov, who has held that post since at least 1985; Fikret Sadykhov, head of the state-owned concern Azkhimiya, which is responsible for many of the city\'s industrial enterprises; and Hidir Alovlu, who heads the Sumgait branch of the ruling Yeni Azerbaycan Party. Aliev said that corrupt decisions taken during the privatization process enabled Sadykhov and businessman Tofig Huseinov to appropriate many of the city\'s businesses.TURKEY-IRAQ SUPPLY LINE OPEN
By empty (4/3/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
More details have been emerging about convoys of military equipment which have been crossing from Turkey into Iraq in the past days, destined for US forces in the region. During talks in Ankara on Wednesday, the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, won Turkish agreement for the supply of food, fuel and medicine across Turkish soil to its troops in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq - but not for weapons. They may not look like a significant contribution to the war effort, but the lines of Turkish-registered trucks driving through dusty border towns contain badly-needed vehicles for the 173rd Airborne Division of the US Army.U.S. EXECUTIVE INDICTED OVER KAZAKH OIL-SECTOR MEGA-BRIBES
By empty (4/3/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
U.S. lawyer and former oil executive James Giffen, who served as an adviser to Kazakhstan\'s President Nursultan Nazarbaev, was arrested in New York on 30 March and charged with two counts of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.Visit also
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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.