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ABDUCTIONS MAIN PROBLEM IN CHECHNYA- GIL-ROBLES
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European Council Commissioner on Human Rights Alvaro Gil-Robles considers the continuing abductions in Chechnya the republic\'s main humanitarian problem. On Friday, following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Gil-Robles told journalists that he will always insist on putting an end to the disappearances of people in Chechnya and eliminating the atmosphere of impunity that is strengthened when abducted people are not found. (Interfax).CE\'S HUMAN RIGHTS CHIEF BLASTS VERDICT IN CHECHNYA CASE
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The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Alvaro Gil-Robles, said on Friday he was shocked by a recent not guilty verdict on Eduard Ulman and other Russian army officers accused of killing six civilians in Chechnya. Gil-Robles, who was speaking to reporters in Moscow, expressed hope the verdict, issued by a jury at a military court in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, would be reversed. (Interfax).RUSSIA HAILS GEORGIAN PRESIDENT\'S FOREIGN BASES PLEDGE
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Yakovenko lauded on 26 May Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili\'s statement during his address earlier that day to mark the anniversary in 1918 of Georgia\'s independence that Georgia will not host any foreign military bases after the closure of the two remaining Russian bases on its territory, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry website (http://www.ln.mid.RIGHTS GROUPS WARN OF POSSIBLE UZBEK CRACKDOWN
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International rights groups voiced fears of a crackdown in Uzbekistan as rights defenders in Uzbekistan cited increasing harassment in the wake of violence in Andijon on 13 May, RFE/RL\'s Uzbek Service and the United Nations\' Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) reported on 26 May. Bakhtiyor Hamroev, a Jizzakh-based human rights activist, said that a crowd of 70 people came to his house, calling him a \"mercenary\" and \"terrorist\" for providing casualty figures from Andijon that differed from official information, the BBC\'s Uzbek Service reported. Meanwhile, representatives of international rights groups told IRIN that the Uzbek government is tightening controls in the wake of the unrest in Andijon.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.