News Digest
RUSSIAN BASES IN GEORGIA HAMPER IMPROVEMENT OF RELATIONSHIP – BURJANADZE
By empty (11/2/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The presence of Russian military bases in Georgia does not facilitate the improvement of relations between Moscow and Tbilisi, Georgian parliamentary speaker Nino Burjanadze said at a press conference in Moscow on Tuesday. \"Russia and Georgia have very good prospects for cooperation without the military bases,\" the speaker said. Burjanadze pointed out that Russia pledged to withdraw the bases in line with the 1999 Istanbul agreements.CIVIL UNREST ERUPTS IN UZBEK CITY
By empty (11/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
There are reports of unprecedented civil disorder in Uzbekistan, where several thousand people have taken to the streets in the city of Kokand. Eyewitnesses said that protesters threw stones and torched police cars after the government brought in new restrictions on trade. Thousands filled the main bazaar, shouting angrily against the new laws.ONE KILLED, 19 INJURED IN TWO TERRORIST ATTACKS IN GROZNY
By empty (10/31/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
One man was killed and 19 others were injured in two terrorist attacks carried out in Grozny on Sunday, the Chechen Emergency Medicine Center told Interfax. A Chechen Interior Ministry source told Interfax that one man was killed and three others were wounded when a car was blasted on Staropromyslovskoye highway at 7:30 a.m.ABKHAZIA SAYS GEORGIA POISED FOR ARMED INVASION
By empty (10/30/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The defense minister of the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia, Vyacheslav Eshba, on Saturday cited \"accurate information\" that \"Georgian armed forces are being concentrated\" near the Abkhaz border and said they were getting ready to invade Abkhazia. Eshba told Interfax he had alerted the Abkhaz armed forces. (Interfax).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.