News Digest
ARMENIAN ARMS SMUGGLING SUSPECT EXTRADITED TO U.S.
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Armen Barseghian, who is suspected of involvement in a conspiracy to smuggle arms to the U.S., was extradited from Armenia to the U.COMMISSION TO EXAMINE AKAYEV FAMILY PROPERTY
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Acting Kyrgyz president Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed a decree on the property of former Kyrgyz president Askar Akayev and his family. The decree lists the property and real estate that is to undergo inspection to determine whether it is legally owned by Akayev or his family, Bakiyev\'s press service told Interfax on Tuesday. The Kyrgyz National Bank and all commercial banks have been ordered to restrict all money transitions from Kyrgyzstan abroad and any operations on the accounts of companies listed in the decree.TALEBAN RELAUNCH RADIO BROADCASTS
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The Taleban have returned to the airwaves in parts of Afghanistan with relaunch of their broadcasts on a pirate radio station. They plan to broadcast every day in the main languages of Afghanistan, Dari and Pashto. The station is called Voice of Shariat, or Islamic Law, and was named after the one the Taleban ran before they were driven from power in 2001.OSCE HEAD MEETS WITH KYRGYZ ACTING PRESIDENT
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OSCE Chairman in Office and Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel met with Kyrgyz acting President Kurmanbek Bakiev in Bishkek on 18 April, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. The two discussed a joint OSCE-Kyrgyz plan to maintain stability in Kyrgyzstan, the OSCE reported in a press release on 18 April. The press release quoted Rupel as saying, \"The workplan we have developed together with the Kyrgyz authorities focuses on such short-term priority areas as maintaining law and order, election assistance, media freedom, and business development.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.