News Digest
FOREIGNERS AMONG 60 INSURGENTS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN OPERATION
By empty (11/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A NATO and Afghan operation that has now ended killed more than 60 Taliban-linked rebels over six days, a provincial governor said, adding that Chechen and Arab fighters were among the dead. The operation was near the border with Pakistan in the province of Paktika, which has recently seen significant security force action against militants, some of whom have admitted to infiltrating from across the border. NATO\'s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed it had been involved in the operation in Barmal district of Paktika.S.OSSETIAN REFERENDUM, ELECTIONS COME TO END
By empty (11/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The South Ossetian referendum on independence and presidential elections have finished, a statement published on the official web site of the South Ossetian State Information and Press Committee reads. \"All polling stations closed in South Ossetia at 8 p.m.OKRUASHVILI DISMISSAL FOILED MILITARY COUP ATTEMPT IN GEORGIA - RUSSIAN ANALYST
By empty (11/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
By dismissing Irakly Okruashvili as Georgian defense minister, President Mikheil Saakashvili averted a military coup in Georgia, Russian Political Research Institute Director Sergei Markov said. \"This is super news. I believe this is the most important news from Georgia in 2006 - it is even more significant than the arrest of Russian officers.ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK TO GRANT UZBEKISTAN MORE THAN $60MLN
By empty (11/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Asian Development Bank (ADB) will grant Uzbekistan more than $60mln for restoration of its drainage and irrigative systems. As a REGNUM correspondent was informed at the ADB, the project envisages grounds’ improvement in area of more than 160,000 hectares in the republic’s three regions: Bukhara, Kashkadarya, and Navoi. \"The ADB grants $32.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.
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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.