News Digest
KAZAKH NGOS DEMAND GREATER TRANSPARENCY IN OIL DEALS
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Several non- government organizations in Kazakhstan have set up a coalition for public control over profits generated from oil deals. Representatives of the NGOs told a Monday news conference in Almaty they had adopted a declaration urging the government to join the Extractive Industrial Transparency Initiative. A spokesman for Soros-Kazakhstan, Anton Artemyev, said the initiative was announced by British Prime Minister Tony Blair in September 2002.CHECHEN INTERIOR MINISTER TAKES LEAVE FOR ELECTION CAMPAIGN
By empty (6/15/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen Interior Minister Alu Alkhanov has taken a leave of absence to take part in the presidential election campaign in Chechnya and has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to appoint Ruslan Alkhanov acting interior minister of Chechnya. Alu Alkhanov has characterized his successor as \"a very reliable person, a former OMON special task police commander.\" Alu Alkhanov told Putin that representatives of many groups in Chechnya have asked him to run for the presidency.RUSSIA\'S PUTIN GIVES NOD TO MINISTER TO REPLACE SLAIN CHECHNYA LEADER
By empty (6/15/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his tacit endorsement to Chechnya\'s interior minister to succeed the war-torn republic\'s slain leader as he received the career policeman at the Kremlin. His meeting with Putin took up nearly three quarters of the 5:00 pm (1300 GMT) news on the state-controlled Rossia channel, which showed it for seven minutes during a 10-minute broadcast. Alkhanov, a tall soft-spoken man with a neatly-trimmed moustache, has spent his adult life working in the interior ministry, which in Russia includes both combat soldiers and police.FIFTY DRUG TRAFFICKING ROUTES CUT OFF IN 2004
By empty (6/15/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Moscow office of the Russian federal drug control service has managed to shut down 50 large drug trafficking routes since the beginning of 2004, head of the service Major Police General Alexei Chuvayev told Interfax. \"The majority of drugs come from countries in Central Asia - Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. There are several ethnic groups that distribute these drugs in Moscow.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.