News Digest
CHERKESS CONTINUE TO PROTEST PLANNED MERGER OF ADYGEYA, KRASNODAR KRAI
By empty (3/1/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The NGO Cherkess Congress has released a statement condemning the publication in the 18-24 February issue of \"Komsomolskaya pravda\" of the findings of an opinion poll asking residents of Krasnodar Krai and the Republic of Adygeya how they would vote in a referendum on merging those two Russian entities. The Cherkess Congress statement criticized the poll as \"destructive\" and likely to exacerbate interethnic tensions in Adygeya, where Cherkess make up some 24 percent of the population, and it rejected the argument that it is economically expedient to subsume \"impoverished\" Adygeya into \"wealthy\" Krasnodar. It also noted that Krasnodar Krai Governor Aleksandr Tkachev has made discriminatory statements about some of the ethnic groups in the planned megaregion, and that the Krasnodar authorities have a record of oppressing minorities, including Armenians and Meskhetians.TAJIK PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS LEGAL - CIS ELECTION OBSERVERS
By empty (2/28/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The February 27 elections to the lower house of the Tajik parliament were legal, CIS Executive Secretary and head of the CIS election observing mission Vladimir Rushailo told a Monday press conference in Dushanbe. \"CIS election observers believe the parliamentary elections in Tajikistan complied with national election laws and have declared the elections legal, free and transparent,\" he said. Rushailo proposed that other election observers, who share this opinion, join in the statement by CIS election observers.OSCE CALLS TAJIK PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS UNDEMOCRATIC
By empty (2/28/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) think that the February 27 parliamentary elections in Tajikistan failed to meet democratic standards, mission head Peter Eicher told a Monday press conference in Dushanbe. He said the state\'s control over the political campaign was too strong, too many governmental officials headed elections commissions, and the authorities interfered in the activities of the independent press. (Interfax).U.S. REJECTS REPORTS IT OPPOSES KARABAKH\'S RETURN TO BAKU
By empty (2/28/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
U.S. officials made a statement denying assertions that Washington, which one of the mediators working to resolve the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, is against returning Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan.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.