By empty (12/27/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Uzbek President Islam Karimov said he favors evolutionary development for his country and opposes revolutions. Uzbekistan should follow an evolutionary path, he told reporters on Sunday, adding that he was \"categorically against revolutions, because revolution means violence.\" Karimov blamed \"revolutionary events\" on post-Soviet territory on the leadership of post-Soviet republics.

By empty (12/27/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The verification of compensation payments to Chechen residents has saved the republic\'s budget over 500 million rubles in money that would have been distributed to people who do not actually qualify for aid. \"More than 19,000 of the 92,000 applications [for compensation], which were verified in January-October 2004, appear to contain false information,\" says a report from the Russian Interior Ministry, which was posted on the Russian government\'s website on Monday. \"Sixty-one cases were opened on charges of compensation embezzlement.

By empty (12/24/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Russia and Iran are very likely to sign a supplement to an agreement on reimports into Russia of spent nuclear fuel from the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Iran, which Russia is helping build, the head of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency said on Friday. \"At the current moment, the Russian corporation TVEL is agreeing with the Iranian side a contract that would agree the supply of fresh nuclear fuel for the Bushehr nuclear power plant and the return of spent nuclear fuel,\" Alexander Rumyantsev told a news conference in Moscow. (Interfax).