News Digest
HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN URGES MODERATION IN RESPONSE TO BESLAN CRISIS
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Human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin on 11 September criticized those who advocate \"tightening the screws\" on society in the wake of the recent terrorist incidents, RTR reported. \"This is talk from people who are unable to deal with the difficult problems with which we live in a relatively more or less free society,\" Lukin said. Lukin compared the atmosphere in Russia today with what happened in the United States following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.ANTI-U.S., ANTI-BRITISH DEMONSTRATIONS HELD IN MOSCOW
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Several hundred Russians demonstrated on 10 September in front of the U.S. and British embassies in Moscow, demanding extradition of two prominent Chechens granted asylum in the two countries, Western and Russian news agencies reported.US \'KILLS 22\' IN AFGHAN FIREFIGHT
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US forces have killed 22 suspected Taleban and al-Qaeda militants in a gun battle in southern Afghanistan, the US military says. American troops and helicopters fought the insurgents in the Shinkay district of Zabul province, late on Sunday. \"Twenty-two anti-coalition militias were killed - three of them were Arabs,\" US military spokesman Major Scott Nelson said in Kabul.IRANIAN PRESIDENT STRESSES ECONOMIC TIES ON TAJIK VISIT
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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said on 12 September in Dushanbe that it is Iran\'s \"national duty\" to strengthen ties with Tajikistan. Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov announced the same day that Iran has agreed to provide $250 million for the construction of Tajikistan\'s Sangtuda hydropower plant. Overall, Rakhmonov said that Iran will cover 51 percent of the plant\'s more than $500 million cost, with Russia providing $100 million and Tajikistan $120 million.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.