News Digest
UN PEACE-BUILDING REPRESENTATIVE CONCERNED AT POSTELECTION TENSIONS IN TAJIKISTAN
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Vladimir Sotirov, head of the UN Tajikistan Office of Peace-Building, told Avesta in an interview on 3 March that he is concerned about the tensions that the 27 February parliamentary elections have caused between the government and the opposition. Sotirov noted as a worrisome development the possibility that four opposition parties -- the Communist Party, Islamic Renaissance Party, Democratic Party, and Social Democratic Party -- might withdraw from the Public Council to protest alleged election fraud. \"Ceasing dialogue at the level of the Public Council in itself is a dangerous step that threatens the efforts being made by the nation and political parties in the country\'s post-conflict development,\" Sotirov said.BAKU JOURNALIST\'S MURDER BLOW AGAINST DEMOCRACY - PRESIDENT
By empty (3/3/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The murder of Monitor magazine\'s editor Elmar Guseinov was intended to discredit the country\'s leadership, said Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. The president said that in conditions of public and political stability, the murder of a journalist in Baku is a serious attack on the state and its leadership and a blow against Azerbaijan\'s democracy, the presidential press service said on Thursday, following an extraordinary Security Council session. (Interfax-Azerbaijan).CHECHNYA OIL INDUSTRY DEVELOPING TOO SLOWLY - PRESIDENT
By empty (3/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen President Alu Alkhanov on Wednesday complained about \"clearly insufficient\" operations by the Russian oil company Rosneft, the only company producing oil in Chechnya. \"We want to develop this sector both qualitatively and quantitatively,\" Alkhanov told a news conference. \"The oil industry accounts for 70% to 80% of the republic\'s budget,\" he said.PRESIDENT-LED PARTY WINS MOST SEATS IN TAJIK PARLIAMENT
By empty (3/1/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Representatives of the People\'s Democratic Party led by President Emomali Rakhmonov have won the most seats in the lower house of the Tajik parliament, Central Elections Commission Chairman Mirzoali Boltuyev said on Tuesday. The barrier of 5% needed to be represented in parliament has also been cleared by the Communist Party and the Islamic Revival Party, Boltuyev said. He said representatives of the Democratic Party, Social-Democratic Party and Socialist Party had failed to muster enough votes in the February 27 parliamentary polls.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.