News Digest
ARMENIA\'S LARGEST HOSPITAL PRIVATIZED
By empty (10/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Armenian government approved a plan on 30 September to privatize the country\'s largest hospital, RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau reported. The plan calls for the privatization of the Armenia Republican Medical Center in a 135 million-dram ($267,000) sale without a competitive tender. The move is fairly controversial, as the privatization of Armenia\'s health-care facilities were suspended in August 2003 following the objections of parliamentary speaker Artur Baghdasarian.ARMENIAN OPPOSITION LEADERS VOW TO CONTINUE BOYCOTT OF PARLIAMENT
By empty (10/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Armenian opposition leaders criticized on 30 September the parliamentary debate on amendments to the country\'s Electoral Code and vowed to continue their boycott of parliament, RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau reported. Opposition Artarutiun (Justice) alliance deputy Grigor Harutiunian dismissed the parliamentary debate as insincere and added that \"the obedient majority would block any real change.\" The debate centers on amendments to election laws drafted by the pro-government majority seeking to modify the composition of state-appointed election commissions.OPERATION IN EAST CHECHNYA TO CONTINUE - ACTING MINISTER
By empty (9/30/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The operation in the highlands of eastern Chechnya will go on until all the militants detected in the area are dead, acting Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov told Interfax on Thursday. Sizable forces are searching the forest at the junction of Nozhai- Yurt, Kurchaloi and Gudermes districts, he said. The operation has produced results, Alkhanov said.LOCAL POPULATION CONTINUING TO SURRENDER ARMS IN CHECHNYA
By empty (9/30/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Two sub-machine guns, a revolver and two grenades have been surrendered by two people from Chechnya\'s Achkhoi-Martan district and a Nozhai-Yurt resident over the past 24 hours, Maj. Gen. Ilya Shabalkin, spokesman for the regional headquarters for the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus, told Interfax on Thursday.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.