News Digest
KAZAKH COMMISSION PREPARES FOR ELECTIONS
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Representatives of the Central Election Commission announced in Almaty on 28 June that the nomination of candidates for 19 September elections to Kazakhstan\'s lower house of parliament will begin on 18 July and end on 9 August, Kazakh TV reported. Registration will last until 18 August. A spokesperson said that the central budget will provide each candidate with 191,650 tenges ($1,400) for campaign advertising; 13,000 tenges each will go toward a 10-minute radio address; and 60,000 tenges each will be allocated for a 15-minute television address.RUSSIAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGNERS TO MONITOR CHECHEN ELECTIONS
By empty (6/29/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian human rights campaigners will monitor the Chechen presidential election campaign, Chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alekseyeva told Interfax on Tuesday. \"We will monitor the Chechen elections, but we do not intend to send observers for them,\" Alekseyeva said, adding that the human rights situation in Chechnya remains tense. Observers from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will also likely not be present at the presidential elections in Chechnya.MUSAVAT LEADER MEETS U.S. AMBASSADOR
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Isa Gambar, leader of Azerbaijan’s main opposition Musavat (Equality) party, has met with the U.S. ambassador in Baku, Rino Harnish, opposition daily Yeni Musavat reported on Monday.TROUBLED NEIGHBORS ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN AND TURKEY PLEDGE COOPERATION
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Under pressure by NATO and the European Union, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey pledged to seek to resolve their tangled disputes through trilateral meetings. The foreign ministers of the three troubled neighbors, Vardan Oskanian of Armenia, Elmar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan and Abdullah Gul of Turkey met on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Istanbul. Emphasizing that both NATO and the EU were keen to stabilize the conflict-torn Caucasian region, Gul told reporters after the meeting that they had discussed \"ways and means of cooperating to achieve stability through constructive means.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.