News Digest
KAZAKH FOREIGN MINISTRY OBJECTS TO REMARKS BY SCO ANTITERROR HEAD
By empty (2/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan\'s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement disputing recent claims by Vyacheslav Kasymov, director of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization\'s (SCO) Regional Antiterrorism Structure, that Kazakhstan harbors terrorist organizations. In a 7 February interview with \"Nezavisimaya gazeta,\" Kasymov said that in Kazakhstan \"there are even lands bought up by firms that belong to the \'bin Ladens.\'\" Noting that Kazakhstan is a party to the 12 UN antiterrorism conventions, the statement dubbed Kasymov\'s claims \"inappropriate.RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER WARNED OVER CHECHEN INTERVIEW
By empty (2/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian authorities formally warned Kommersant newspaper on Tuesday after it published an interview with a Chechen warlord who has a $10 million price on his head, Interfax news agency reported. After three warnings, the authorities could close the paper. In the interview in the business daily on Monday, Chechen rebel Aslan Maskhadov confirmed an earlier cease-fire order and said Russia should hold peace talks with separatists in the war-torn region, or \"the blood will flow for a long time.UN TO HEAR KYRGYZ CASE ON AKSY EVENTS
By empty (2/8/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Sarpai Jaichibekov, a lawyer for a number of residents of Kyrgyzstan\'s Aksy region, told RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service on 7 February that his clients\' cases will be heard by a UN committee. The case involves individuals who suffered during demonstrations in Aksy in March 2002, when police opened fire, killing six protestors. While some court proceedings took place in Kyrgyzstan, Jaichibekov\'s clients feel that those who stand behind the tragedy went unpunished, and that the world body is now their only hope of obtaining justice.U.S. FORENSIC EXPERTS ARRIVE IN GEORGIA
By empty (2/8/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Six U.S. forensic experts arrived in Tbilisi early on 8 February to participate in the ongoing investigation into the circumstances of the death on 4 February of Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, Caucasus Press reported.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.