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GEORGIA MAY BECOME NATO CANDIDATE IN 2006 – MINISTER
By empty (12/15/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian Interior Minister Irakly Okruashvili has said that as soon as he is appointed defense minister, he will carry out all the necessary reforms to help his country become a candidate for NATO membership in 2006. \"Integration with NATO is one of Georgia\'s top priorities,\" Okruashvili said in an interview with Georgia\'s Rustavi 2 television late on Tuesday. (Interfax).NUMBER OF VICTIMS OF TERRORIST ATTACKS ROSE 150% IN RUSSIA IN 2004
By empty (12/14/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The number of victims of terrorist attacks increased 2.5 times in Russia in 2004, said Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu. \"In total, 12 terrorist attacks have been staged in Russia this year.FOUR KILLED IN ATTACK ON DRUG CONTROL DEPARTMENT IN NALCHIK
By empty (12/14/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Four officers have been killed in an armed attack on the department of the Federal Drug Control Service in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria. \"At about 3 a.m.AZERBAIJAN SEES NO FINANCE PROBLEM FOR PIPELINE
By empty (12/14/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
14 December Azerbaijan does not expect problems in financing construction of the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline despite a $400 million jump in the estimated cost, the country\'s president Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday. The million-barrel-per-day pipeline from the Caspian to the Mediterranean had been forecast to cost $3.6 billion, but Azeri state oil firm SOCAR said last month construction delays had boosted the cost to $4 billion.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.