News Digest
EX-KYRGYZ LEADER AKAYEV MAY BE STRIPPED OF IMMUNITY - PROSECUTOR GENERAL
By empty (7/7/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Ex-Kyrgyz president Askar Akayev might be deprived of his immunity status, said Kyrgyz Prosecutor General Azimbek Beknazarov. \"I cannot rule out that, when the parliament considers depriving ex-president\'s son Aidar Akayev of his immunity in the fall, the Prosecutor General\'s Office might also file a request on depriving former president Akayev of his immunity,\" Beknazarov said at a press conference on Thursday. (Interfax).AZERBAIJAN SAYS BRITON, OTHER FOREIGNERS JAILED FOR TERROR PLOT
By empty (7/6/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijan said on Wednesday it had jailed a group of Afghan, British, Jordanian and Russian citizens for plotting terrorist acts. A court sitting in closed session last month convicted the nine men of planning terrorism, of illegal arms possession, crossing borders illegally and of forging documents, the National Security Ministry said in a statement. Sentences handed out to the group, which also included three Azeris, ranged from 15 years in jail to three-year suspended sentences, the ministry said.RUSSIA, KAZAKHSTAN SIGN $23 BLN OIL DEAL
By empty (7/6/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Russian and Kazakh state oil firms, Rosneft and KazMunaiGas, signed a deal on Wednesday to invest $23 billion in a 55-year production sharing agreement for the Kurmangazy oilfield in the Caspian Sea.Kazakh first deputy energy minister Baktykozha Izmukhambetov told reporters recoverable oil reserves at Kurmangazy were estimated at 980 million tons (more than 7 billion barrels). If confirmed Kurmangazy would prove to be one of the world\'s largest deposits and help Kazakhstan join the league of top oil producers as the country wants to triple production to over 3 million barrels per day by 2015.\'COLOR REVOLUTIONS\' BROUGHT NO GOOD TO CIS PEOPLES - AKAYEV
By empty (7/6/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The so-called color revolutions in former Soviet republics have brought troubles to the peoples where they occurred, ex-Kyrgyz president Askar Akayev said in a Wednesday interview with Interfax. \"I believe that on the whole, the color revolutions that have happened in the post-Soviet territory have not done anything good. On the contrary, they have turned out to be troubles for the peoples of the countries where they have taken place,\" Akayev said.Visit also
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Analysis Svante E. Cornell, "Promise and Peril in the Caucasus," AFPC Insights, March 30, 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.
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.