News Digest
U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE URGES UZBEKISTAN TO AGREE TO INTERNATIONAL INQUIRY
By empty (5/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on the Uzbek authorities on 21 May to agree to an international inquiry into the recent unrest in the eastern city of Andijon.FOURTEEN MILITANTS KILLED IN CHECHNYA IN FOUR DAYS
By empty (5/20/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Several successful special operations conducted in Chechnya over the last four days have resulted in the elimination of 14 militants, some of them commanders, Chechen Interior Ministry spokesman Ruslan Atsayev told Interfax on Friday. Among those killed was Alash Daudov, regarded as the second most important militant after Shamil Basayev, and also Rasul Khidirlezov and Isa Tsakalayev, he said. In addition, 12 people wanted for major crimes were arrested and five active militants were detained, he said.GOVT SHOULD ENCOURAGE ETHNIC RUSSIANS TO RETURN TO CHECHNYA – ALKHANOV
By empty (5/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen President Alu Alkhanov has called on the federal government to develop a set of measures to encourage ethnic Russians to return to the Chechen republic. Speaking at a government session on Thursday, Alkhanov recalled that 300,000 Russian-speaking people and some 300,000 Chechens have left the republic since 1991, when Dzhokhar Dudayev came to power in Chechnya. As a result, Chechnya has turned into a mono-ethnic region in the North Caucasus, he said.TALKING ABOUT GEORGIA\'S JOINING NATO PREMATURE - NATO OFFICIAL
By empty (5/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
It would be premature to talk about Georgia\'s joining NATO at the present time, said NATO Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simmons. Speaking at a press conference at the Izvestia media center in Moscow on Thursday, Simmons said NATO believes it should derive as much benefit from cooperation with Georgia as possible, but it does not really think the time has come to talk about intensifying the dialog on that country\'s accession to NATO. The alliance believes partnership relations could also be beneficial enough, he said.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.