News Digest
FORMER TAJIK INTERIOR MINISTER MAINTAINS INNOCENCE
By empty (9/29/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Saidkomil Qurbonov, the defense lawyer for former Tajik Interior Minister Yaqub Salimov told on 29 September that his client considers himself innocent of the charges he faces. Salimov faces up to 15 years\' imprisonment on treason and corruption charges. Qurbonov said, \"We, the defense, feel that the accusations are unfounded and unproven.FORMER INGUSH PRESIDENT CALLS FOR TALKS WITH \"MODERATE\" CHECHEN MILITANTS
By empty (9/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The former president of Ingushetia, Ruslan Aushev, on Tuesday called on the Russian leadership to hold talks with \"moderate militants\" in Chechnya. Aushev argued that indiscriminate repressive measures against the separatist movement stimulated radicalization within it. \"Militants in Chechnya are not alike.ABKHAZIA WILL NOT REJOIN WITH GEORGIA - ABKHAZ PM
By empty (9/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Abkhaz Prime Minister Raul Khajimba has claimed that Abkhazia will never become part of Georgia again. \"We have been accustomed to the Georgian president\'s statements that he will return Abkhazia to Georgia. Tbilisi should understand that Abkhazia will not return to Georgia, and this problem cannot be solved by force,\" Khajimba told Interfax on Tuesday.ASYLUM FOR AKHMADOV WAS COURT DECISION – VERSHBOW
By empty (9/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Granting political asylum to Chechen separatist figure Ilyas Akhmadov was purely a decision of the court, not a statement of U.S. foreign policy, Washington\'s ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow told Interfax in a Tuesday interview.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.