News Digest
ABKHAZ OFFICIALS REJECT DEPLOYMENT OF UN POLICE IN GALI
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During talks in Sukhumi on 7 June with Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini, who is UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan\'s special representative for the Abkhaz conflict, Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh rejected as inexpedient the proposed deployment in Abkhazia\'s southernmost Gali Raion of UN police officers. He claimed that Abkhaz police are taking measures to crack down on crime in Gali. On 27 May, the Georgian daily \"Rezonansi\" quoted a Georgian crime expert as saying that 238 people have been killed in Gali over the past two years, and robberies, kidnappings, and the hijacking of cars and buses are also frequent.GEORGIA SOLICITS SOUTH OSSETIANS\' HELP IN RELEASING HOSTAGES
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Georgian Deputy Interior Minister Bidzina Bregadze told journalists in Tbilisi on 8 June that both the Georgian and the South Ossetian authorities know the identity of the people who abducted four Georgians in the South Ossetian conflict zone two days earlier. For that reason, Bregadze said, the Georgian police will not launch an operation to try to free the four men but have asked the South Ossetian Interior Ministry to do so. Georgian Minister for Conflict Resolution Giorgi Khaindrava traveled to Tskhinvali on 8 June to discuss the abduction with the commander of the Russian peacekeeping forces in the conflict zone, Caucasus Press reported.UZBEKISTAN SKIPS NATO MEET AS RUSSIA RESISTS PROBE
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Uzbekistan declined to send its defence minister to a NATO ministerial meeting on Thursday, and a NATO official said the alliance was reviewing its ties with the country following killings there last month. But Russia resisted NATO calls for an independent inquiry into the deaths of at least 173 people. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov refused to condemn Tashkent for the killings by troops who opened fire to quell an uprising.EVENTS IN UZBEKISTAN ORGANIZED FROM AFGHANISTAN – IVANOV
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Russia has credible information that the recent disturbances in the Uzbek town of Andizhan were organized from Afghan territory, said Russian Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov. \"Our information is quite reliable: everything that happened in Andizhan was inspired from Afghan territory,\" Ivanov said at a session of the Russian-NATO Council on Thursday. \"A group of armed militants from Islamic organizations, including [Taliban members], had been planning a raid on Uzbekistan for a long time.Visit also
Staff Publications
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.