News Digest
UZBEK COURT JAILS 23 OVER ATTACKS
By empty (10/22/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A court in Uzbekistan has sentenced 23 people to from three to 18 years in jail for their role in a series of suicide bombings and shootings. At least 47 people, mostly police and militants, died in the attacks in Bukhara and the capital, Tashkent, earlier this year. More than 50 people have already been jailed in connection with the attacks.AZERI OPPOSITION LEADER JAILED
By empty (10/22/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Seven leading opposition figures in Azerbaijan have been jailed for up to five years over involvement in riots following last year\'s elections. Opposition parties protested in the former Soviet republic over the conduct of the elections after Ilham Aliyev won the presidency in October 2003. Two defendants were given five years.UZBEK PRESIDENT MEETS WITH ASSISTANT U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE
By empty (10/6/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbek President Islam Karimov met with visiting Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Lincoln Bloomfield in Tashkent on Tuesday evening to discuss regional security and ways to counter transnational threats.SUBDUED AFGHANISTAN CAMPAIGN ENDS
By empty (10/6/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Campaigning in Afghanistan\'s presidential election is ending on Wednesday. Afghans will begin casting their votes on Saturday morning at some 25,000 polling stations, in the country\'s first democratic ballot. Security concerns have overshadowed the run-up to the poll, with the incumbent and clear favourite, Hamid Karzai, holding his first rally on Tuesday.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.