News Digest
RUSSIA WILLING TO GIVE WATER TO CENTRAL ASIA
By empty (3/25/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In the wake of the World Water Forum that ended in Kyoto, Japan, on 23 March, First Deputy Natural Resources Minister Nikolai Tarasov told journalists that Russia is willing to provide water to Central Asia, but no Central Asian countries have made formal requests for such assistance. One session of the international water conference was devoted to the Aral Sea. Uzbekistan\'s Rim Giniyatullin of the International Fund to Save the Aral said diverting just 5 percent of the water from Siberian rivers to the sea would prevent its complete disappearance.PUTIN SAYS CHECHEN REFERENDUM HAS REMOVED THREAT TO RUSSIA\'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY
By empty (3/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Meeting on 24 March with Russian government ministers, President Putin said the previous day\'s referendum in Chechnya \"resolved the last serious problem relating to Russia\'s territorial integrity,\" Russian media reported. According to official data, Chechen voters overwhelmingly endorsed a new draft constitution that defines Chechnya as an integral part of the Russian Federation. Putin instructed ministers to speed up work connected with reconstruction in Chechnya.BUSH COMPLAINS TO PUTIN ABOUT ALLEGED MILITARY TRANSFERS TO IRAQ
By empty (3/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
U.S. President George W.WASHINGTON ACCUSES RUSSIA OF ILLEGAL MILITARY SALES TO IRAQ
By empty (3/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russia\'s Ambassador to the United States Yurii Ushakov was summoned on 24 March to the U.S. State Department to receive an official protest alleging that Russia allowed illegal transfers of military equipment to Iraq in violation of UN-imposed economic sanctions.Visit also
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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.