News Digest
EMBATTLED INGUSH LEADER RECONFIRMED FOR FIVE-YEAR TERM
By empty (6/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On 14 June, the Ingushetian parliament amended the republic\'s constitution to stipulate that the parliament confirms and empowers the Russian president\'s nominee for the post of president of Ingushetia, who serves for a period of five years. Murat Zyazikov, who submitted his resignation to President Putin on 2 June with a request that he be renominated, which Putin duly did, signed the amendment the same day. On 15 June, presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District Dmitrii Kozak presented Zyazikov to the Ingushetian parliament, and 30 of the 31 deputies present voted in favor of Zyazikov\'s reappointment.SOUTH, NORTH OSSETIAN LEADERS PUSH FOR UNIFICATION
By empty (6/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Eduard Kokoity of the self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia has welcomed a statement by Taimuraz Mamusurov, the new head of the Russian internal republic of North Ossetia, who said the two republics should be unified. \"South Ossetia\'s incorporation into Russia and its unification with North Ossetia is necessary and inevitable,\" Kokoity told Interfax on Thursday. \"An overwhelming majority of South Ossetian residents have Russian citizenship,\" he said.UZBEK PROSECUTORS UNVEIL NEW NUMBERS ON ANDIJON UNREST
By empty (6/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Anvar Nabiev, Uzbekistan\'s deputy prosecutor-general, announced on 16 June that 176 people were killed in unrest in Andijon on 13 May. The previous official death toll had been 173. Nabiev identified 79 of those killed as \"terrorists.UN BEGINS ANDIJON INVESTIGATION IN KYRGYZSTAN
By empty (6/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A four-member team from the Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) on 15 June began a 10-day investigation of the 13 May violence in Uzbekistan, RFE/RL reported. Because Uzbekistan has rejected calls for an international investigation, the team will operate in Kyrgyzstan. \"They are going to be interviewing eyewitnesses and other people with firsthand knowledge of the events in Andijon in May,\" OHCHR spokesman Diaz told RFE/RL.Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.
Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.