News Digest
OWNER OF HOUSE IN WHICH CHECHEN LEADER WAS KILLED FOUND DEAD
By empty (3/24/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The owner of the house in Tolstoi-Yurt where Russian federal troops surrounded and killed Chechen President and resistance leader Aslan Maskhadov on 8 March has been found dead, Russian media reported on 24 March. His body reportedly bore signs of torture. Also on 24 March, a Grozny city council official told Interfax that it would be \"unethical\" to provide funds to rebuild the house, which was destroyed several days after Maskhadov\'s death.AFGHANISTAN OPENS WEST POINT STYLE CADET SCHOOL
By empty (3/22/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Mentored by advisers from the prestigious U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Afghanistan has opened its own cadet school to groom an officer class versed in democratic values for its fledgling army.ONE KILLED, SIX INJURED IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN PRISON RIOT
By empty (3/22/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
One prisoner has been killed and six people including three policemen injured during a clash at a jail in southern Afghanistan, officials said. The incident took place Monday night in the city of Kandahar, the former stronghold of the ultra-Islamic Taliban regime. \"One prisoner was killed and six others including three police were injured in Kandahar prison,\" city police director General Salim Khan told AFP Tuesday, declining to give more details.PROTESTS FORCE KYRGYZ POLL REVIEW
By empty (3/22/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan\'s president, Askar Akayev, has ordered a review of some parliamentary poll results amid growing protests over alleged irregularities. His office said a review would be held in districts of the Central Asian state where the poll results had sparked \"a strong public reaction\". The announcement came as opposition protesters seized two towns, including the country\'s second city Osh.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.