News Digest
AFGHAN CLASH \'KILLS 20 MILITANTS\'
By empty (5/4/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Twenty suspected Taleban militants have been killed in a bloody clash with US and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan, the US military has said. One Afghan policemen was also killed and six US soldiers injured in the fighting in Zabul province on Tuesday. The clash began when gunmen fired on coalition forces investigating the beating of a local man, the US said.TURKMEN PRESIDENT SAYS NOT TO RUN AT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN 2009
By empty (4/20/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov will not run at the presidential election in 2009. Niyazov made a statement at a meeting with OSCE chairman-in-office and Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel on Wednesday. Rupel asked the president whether he would register as a candidate at the upcoming presidential election.RUSSIAN ENVOY IN KYRGYZSTAN CAUTIONS AGAINST \'PANIC\'
By empty (4/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Yevgenii Shmagin, Russia\'s ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, issued an appeal on 18 April to ethnic Russians in Kyrgyzstan to remain calm in the face of reports of anti-Russian propaganda, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. The appeal noted, \"Rumors of incitement to the division of property and ethnic strife have recently sparked concern among the population of Bishkek and the entire country..GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT EVACUATED FOLLOWING BOMB THREAT
By empty (4/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Georgian parliament building was evacuated on 19 April following an anonymous bomb threat made from a public telephone, but a four-hour search failed to reveal any explosive device. Speaker Nino Burdjanadze slammed the bomb threat as intended to tarnish Georgia\'s reputation on the eve of U.S.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.