News Digest
AS RUSSIAN TV STORY ON BORDER PROMPTS TAJIK PROTEST
By empty (12/7/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tajikistan\'s Ministry of Foreign Affairs conveyed a note to the Russian Embassy in Dushanbe on 6 December expressing concern over a 5 December report on Russia\'s state-controlled Rossiya network, Tajik TV reported. Calling the report part of \"an intentional anti-Tajik campaign in the Russian media,\" the note disputed the television report\'s suggestion that the transfer of the Tajik-Afghan border to Tajik jurisdiction will harm drug interdiction efforts. Tajik television also reported on 6 December that Aleksandr Kondratev, spokesman for Russia\'s Federal Border Service in Tajikistan, stated that the Rossiya report misrepresented the state of cooperation between Russian and Tajik border guards.ABKHAZ PRESIDENTIAL RIVALS REACH CONSENSUS
By empty (12/6/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
During talks in Sukhum on 4-5 December mediated by Russian Deputy Prosecutor-General Vladimir Kolesnikov, former Abkhaz Prime Minister Raul Khadjimba and Chernomorenenergo head Sergei Bagapsh discussed the latter\'s proposal that they should jointly participate in a new presidential ballot in which Bagapsh would seek the presidency with Khadjimba as vice president. Khadjimba said on 6 December that he has agreed to Bagapsh\'s proposal but that the date of 26 December proposed by Bagapsh for the new ballot is unacceptable. Khadjimba added that he hopes to reach agreement with Bagapsh within days on a mutually acceptable time frame.SECURITY FORCES APPREHEND CHECHEN PRESIDENT\'S RELATIVES
By empty (12/6/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen security forces including members of First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov\'s infamous \"presidential guard\" detained an unspecified number of relatives of Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov on 4 December, chechenpress.info reported on 5 December. The detainees were taken to the village of Khosi-Yurt.U.S. TO START PROGRAM FOR GEORGIAN ARMY
By empty (12/6/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The U.S. in January will launch a new program to support the Georgian army.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.