News Digest
OIL PIPELINE TO LINK KAZAKHS TO ENERGY-HUNGRY CHINA
By empty (9/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan and China launched the construction of an oil pipeline on Tuesday that will ship up to 20 million tones (400,000 barrels) of Russian and Kazakh oil a year to help feed China\'s booming economy. The link will be a major boom for landlocked Kazakhstan. The mineral-rich nation aspires to triple its crude output to over 3.PRO-KREMLIN EXPERTS SAY \'EXTERNAL\' AND \'INTERNAL\' FORCES SUPPORT
By empty (9/27/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Television commentator Mikhail Leontev said on 26 September that he supports President Putin\'s statement that outside forces are using international terrorism to promote the disintegration of Russia. \"There are such influential forces in the United States and Europe,\"said Leontev, speaking on Vladimir Pozner\'s prime-time ORT program, in an installment devoted to international terrorism. Duma Deputy Dmitrii Rogozin (Motherland); the chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia, Geidar Dzhamal; and head of the Political and Religious Researchers Center, Maksim Shevchenko, agreed with Leontev.U.S. TO TRAIN AND EQUIP ANOTHER 4,000 GEORGIAN SERVICEMEN
By empty (9/27/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The United States will continue to help train and equip Georgian servicemen, Georgian Defense Minister Giorgi Baramidze said at the Tbilisi airport on Monday upon returning from Washington. \"U.S.KYRGYZ PRESIDENT BEGINS FIVE-DAY U.S. TOUR
By empty (9/25/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Askar Akaev left Kyrgyzstan on 25 September for a five-day tour of the United States. The Kyrgyz president will be in Utah from 25-27 September to hold meetings with the state\'s governor and Utah business leaders. On 28 September, Akaev will be in New York to attend the 59th session of the UN General Assembly, and on 28-29 September he will visit Boston to present his latest book, \"Memorable Ten Years.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.