News Digest
OSCE CRITICIZES OPPOSITION\'S ACTIONS IN KYRGYZSTAN
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Officials from the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCE) have criticized the actions of the local opposition forces in Kyrgyzstan that have triggered disorder and unrest in the southern part of the country, a source close to the OSCE Center in Bishkek told Interfax on Tuesday. \"Representatives from this organization in Bishkek have made harshly critical comments on the opposition\'s actions, assessing them as anti-constitutional and going beyond the acceptable limits,\" the source said. In private conversations, OSCE representatives \"agree that among the motives behind the opposition\'s unfolding destructive actions was the conclusion that the monitoring mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) made following the first round of the elections,\" he said.RUSSIAN BASE WITHDRAWAL FROM GEORGIA WOULD COST $250-300MLN - IVANOV
By empty (3/22/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said that withdrawing Russia\'s military bases from Georgia would cost about $250-300 million. \"The price of withdrawing our bases from Georgia would be $250-300 million,\" Ivanov told journalists in St. Petersburg on Tuesday.AKAYEV WILL NOT DISCUSS RESIGNATION WITH OPPOSITION
By empty (3/22/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev said he will not resign from his post as the Kyrgyz opposition has been demanding. \"As for my resignation, this issue lies outside the capability of any political forces,\" Akayev said in a televised speech on Tuesday evening. \"This decision can only be made by the people or the parliament, and we will not negotiate on this subject,\" Akayev said.GEORGIAN POLICE DETAIN FOUR DRUNKEN CIS PEACEKEEPERS
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A Georgian rapid-response unit detained four CIS peacekeepers on 21 March near the unofficial border between Abkhazia and Georgia, Rustavi-2 television reported. The armed peacekeepers were held after reportedly entering a private residence in the village of Ganmukhuri in the Zugdidi District. The peacekeepers, who were reportedly found to be intoxicated, initially told the Georgian police that they were \"searching for a lost horse,\" but later admitted that they were lost.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.