News Digest
FBI CONFIRMS GEORGIAN PREMIER DIED OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING
By empty (4/3/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Experts from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who have been assisting in the investigation of the 3 February death of Zurab Zhvania told journalists in Tbilisi on 1 April that they found no evidence that Zhvania was killed deliberately, rather than succumbing to fumes from a faulty gas heater.\'TALEBAN\' STRIKE IN AFGHANISTAN
By empty (4/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Six people have been killed in southern Afghanistan, in two attacks officials have blamed on Taleban fighters. Early on Saturday gunmen stormed government offices in Helmand province, killing at least three policemen and injuring four others. Earlier, three lorry drivers - two Afghans and a Pakistani - were shot dead when their military convoy was ambushed close to the Pakistani border.KYRGYZSTAN\'S PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER HOPES AKAYEV WILL RESIGN
By empty (4/3/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan\'s parliamentary speaker Omurbek Tekebayev said ousted President Askar Akayev will hopefully step down on Sunday. \"In accordance with the constitution, resignation must proceed in parliament. But the current situation does not allow Akayev to return to Kyrgyzstan,\" Tekebayev told the press upon his arrival in Moscow on Sunday morning for talks with Akayev.MASKHADOV\'S BODY WON\'T BE RELEASED TO FAMILY – SHEPEL
By empty (4/1/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Prosecutor General\'s Office will not release the body of the late Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov to his family, Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel told journalists on Friday. \"The law on the fight against terrorism bans the bodies of terrorists from being released to their relatives. They are buried in unmarked graves,\" Shepel said.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.