News Digest
GEORGIA DECLINES CHECHEN OFFER TO RESTORE ORDER IN PANKISI GORGE
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Georgian National Security Council Secretary Gela Bezhuashvili and Deputy Minister of State Security Batu Kutelia both said on 4 November that Tbilisi is competent to establish law and order in the Pankisi Gorge without any outside help. On 3 November, Reuters quoted Chechen First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov as saying Chechen officials are \"fed up\" with Georgia\'s tolerance of Chechen militants in Pankisi and are ready to \"establish order\" there. Bezhuashvili proposed that Kadyrov focus his energy on establishing order in Chechnya.MINISTER SAYS CITIZENS OF 52 COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN KILLED IN NORTH CAUCASUS FIGHTING
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Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on 4 November that Russian forces in the North Caucasus have killed \"terrorists from 52 countries of the world.\" \"When we destroy such a terrorist, we do not accuse the state whose passport he carries of aggression against Russia,\" Ivanov said. \"It is a question of how the state tries to help us in the investigation, whether it gives us information about how this man infiltrated Russia\'s territory.KAZAKHSTAN\'S NEWLY ELECTED LEGISLATURE ON WEDNESDAY CHOSE A DEPUTY FROM THE RULING OTAN PARTY TO BE PARLIAMENT SPEAKER
By empty (11/3/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Ural Mukhamedzhanov got the backing of 65 of the 74 deputies in a secret ballot during the new parliament\'s first session. Three deputies voted against and the other six ballots were deemed invalid. Mukhamedzhanov, 56, a former Communist party bureaucrat, has held various positions in the government apparatus and president\'s administration since 1995.OPPOSITION\'S REFUSAL TO WORK IN KAZAKH PARLIAMENT A MISTAKE - PRESIDENTIAL AIDE
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The Kazakh president\'s political advisor Yermukhamet Yertysbayev said the opposition party Ak Zhol\'s rejection of a mandate in the new parliament is a mistake. \"I think it\'s a bad mistake. Refusing to work in the parliament is not just wrong, it\'s stupid,\" Yertysbayev said.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.