News Digest
UZBEK PRESIDENT DECRIES \'EVIL FORCES\'
By empty (9/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Speaking at a ceremony in Tashkent on 31 August to commemorate victims of Soviet-era repressions, President Islam Karimov noted the need to instill a \"healthy ideology\" in young people, Uzbek Radio reported. In an apparent reference to Islamist extremist movements, he also urged a fight against \"evil forces brainwashing our children, setting them against their parents and trying to bring back medieval times.\" Describing globalization as the worldwide spread of information within minutes, President Karimov said that an \"information assault\" is \"more dangerous than any military aggression.US INVESTIGATES AFGHAN AIR RAID
By empty (9/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The United States military says it is conducting an inquiry into whether civilians were killed in an air attack in eastern Afghanistan on Monday. Afghan officials and a Danish aid organisation said at least six civilians died in the air raid near the village of Waradesh in the Pech valley. A US military spokeswoman said there were no specific reports of civilian casualties but an inquiry was underway.CHECHENS SUPPORT RUSSIA\'S INTEGRITY BY VOTING – PUTIN
By empty (8/31/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Vladimir Putin believes that by taking part in the presidential elections in Chechnya, the Chechen people confirmed their support for Russia\'s territorial integrity. \"The Chechen people made their choice by voting for preserving a position in which Chechnya is an inseparable part of Russia. In the Chechen presidential elections, the Chechen people once again confirmed their loyalty to this course,\" Putting told a news conference following talks with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac in Sochi on Tuesday.CHECHNYA\'S NEW PRESIDENT DELIVERS FIRST TELEVISED ADDRESS
By empty (8/31/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In his first televised address to the Chechen people following his victory in the republic\'s presidential elections on Sunday, Alkhanov promised to do everything in his power to help members of illegal armed group return to a peaceful life. \"You know them and what they are doing. You know what tragedy this illegal activity leads to.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.