News Digest
GEORGIAN PRESIDENT WARNS OF \'FOREIGN CONSPIRACY\'
By empty (4/14/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Meeting on 14 April with the staff of the Georgian Prosecutor-General\'s Office, Mikheil Saakashvili claimed that unnamed circles abroad are planning to destabilize Georgia and thereby demonstrate to the international community that it is a failed state. Saakashvili said those unnamed persons plan to transfer to Georgia huge sums of money to be paid to Georgian politicians they hope to co-opt. Saakashvili also commented that some of his former comrades in arms who \"fought on the barricades\" now erroneously consider themselves immune to prosecution, and he warned that they will nonetheless be brought to account for unspecified crimes.MILITARY OFFICIALS SAYS CHECHENS WILL BE DRAFTED THIS SPRING
By empty (4/14/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Defense Ministry plans to draft about 150 young men from the Republic of Chechnya in this spring\'s call-up. Colonel Yevgenii Maksimov, head of the North Caucasus Military District\'s mobilization directorate, told the news agency that Chechen conscripts will serve in the republic. \"They will be sent to infantry units, mostly to guard facilities, military commandants\' offices in particular.KYRGYZ POLL SHOWS KULOV LEADER FOR PRESIDENCY
By empty (4/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A poll conducted among Bishkek resident\'s shows that Feliks Kulov, leader of the Ar-Namys Party, is the leading contender in upcoming presidential elections, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. Conducted among 630 Bishkek residents on 5-7 April by Sotsinformbyuro with the help of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the poll asked respondents whom they would vote for if elections were held on the nearest Sunday. Kulov garnered the support of 52.RUSSIAN, TAJIK FORCES SEIZE 1,500 KILOGRAMS OF DRUGS ON TAJIK-AFGHAN BORDER
By empty (4/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Avaz Yuldoshev, a spokesman for Tajikistan\'s Drug Control Agency, announced at a news conference in Dushanbe on 13 April that Russian and Tajik forces have confiscated 1,500 kilograms of narcotics in 2005. He said that heroin accounted for two thirds of the drug seizures. Yuldoshev stressed that drug production in Afghanistan continues to increase, adding that 50 laboratories for processing opium into heroin are constantly functioning in Afghanistan near the Tajik border.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.