News Digest
GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT TO SET DEADLINE FOR RUSSIAN BASE TALKS
By empty (3/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The draft statement on Russian military bases in Georgia that parliament will issue was not radically amended during debates on Wednesday, said one of the draft\'s authors, Legal Committee deputy chief Giga Bokeria. \"The statement says that if no agreement with Russia on deadlines for withdrawing the bases is reached by May 15, they will be outlawed,\" Bokeria said. May 15 is the deadline the Georgian and Russian Foreign Ministries earlier set for completing negotiations on the future of the military bases, he said.CHECHEN LEADER MASKHADOV KILLED
By empty (3/8/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian forces say Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov has been killed. Russian television showed pictures of a body resembling that of Mr Maskhadov, 53, in a pool of blood in Chechnya. President Vladimir Putin has asked for further identification.NO NEED FOR STATE OF EMERGENCY IN KYRGYZSTAN - PRESS SECRETARY
By empty (3/7/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Kyrgyz presidential press secretary Abdil Segizbayev said he sees no need to declare a state of emergency. \"Nobody is going to declare a state of emergency in Kyrgyzstan. There are no prerequisites for it,\" Segizbayev said on Monday, commenting on the opposition rallies taking place in southern Kyrgyzstan.CITIZENS SEIZE KYRGYZ DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
By empty (3/7/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
About 700 people have seized the Uzgen district administration building in southern Kyrgyzstan, demanding fair parliamentary elections, local media reported. A preliminary report suggests the administration chief and all officials have left the building. Sources in the Osh region police department confirmed the building\'s seizure, but put the number of action participants at about 300.Visit also
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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.