News Digest
CHECHEN AUTHORITIES DENY ALLEGATIONS OF TORTURE
By empty (11/13/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen authorities have denied allegations by Human Rights Watch that prisoners in Chechnya are regularly subjected to torture. \"This information is untrue. If torture really took place, we would speak about this problem, and so would prisoners\' relatives,\" Chechnya\'s Deputy Prime Minister and Ambassador Plenipotentiary in Moscow Ziad Sabsabi told Interfax on Monday.EUROPE\'S UZBEKISTAN DILEMMA
By empty (11/13/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
EU foreign ministers are this week reviewing sanctions imposed on Uzbekistan following the violent suppression of a demonstration in the eastern city of Andijan, in May 2005. Germany and some other EU states have been calling for the sanctions to be eased. They say the measures have not worked, and greater dialogue with the resource-rich Central Asian nation is needed.KAZAKHSTAN\'S CASINOS TO BE RESTRICTED TO TWO RESORTS
By empty (11/13/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The gaming industry in Kazakhstan will be authorized in only two areas as of January 1. Kazakh media report a Security Council meeting today ruled to restrict gaming activities to the resort towns of Kapchagai, in southeastern Kazakhstan, and in the northern town of Shchuchinsk. Finance Minister Natalya Korzhova said that a law banning gaming establishments in the rest of the country is currently under consideration in parliament.TRANSPORT SEMINAR FOR TRACECA MEMBER STATES TO BE HELD IN ISTANBUL
By empty (11/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Turkish city of Istanbul will host November 20 the four-day transport seminar for the TRACECA (Transport Corridor Europe Caucasus Asia) member states, TRACECA Intergovernmental Commission’s National Secretary in Azerbaijan Akif Mustafayev said. He noted representatives of Azerbaijan’s major transport agencies will attend the event. (Azertag).Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, "Promise and Peril in the Caucasus," AFPC Insights, March 30, 2023.
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Putin's War In Ukraine and the Crimean War), 19fourtyfive, January 2, 2023
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Russia Needs Its Own Charles de Gaulle, Foreign Policy, July 21, 2022.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Rethinking Greater Central Asia: American and Western Stakes in the Region and How to Advance Them, June 2022
Oped Svante E. Cornell & Albert Barro, With referendum, Kazakh President pushes for reforms, Euractiv, June 3, 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell Russia's Southern Neighbors Take a Stand, The Hill, May 6, 2022.
Silk Road Paper Johan Engvall, Between Bandits and Bureaucrats: 30 Years of Parliamentary Development in Kyrgyzstan, January 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell, No, The War in Ukraine is not about NATO, The Hill, March 9, 2022.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, Kazakhstan’s Crisis Calls for a Central Asia Policy Reboot, The National Interest, January 34, 2022.
Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Starr & Albert Barro, Political and Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan Under President Tokayev, November 2021.