News Digest
GEORGIAN OFFICIALS ACCUSE RUSSIA OF SENDING ARMOR TO SOUTH OSSETIA
By empty (6/12/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian parliament Defense and Security Committee Chairman Givi Targamadze and Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania both claimed on 12 June that Moscow dispatched a convoy of some 150 military vehicles transporting artillery, ammunition and 120 troops from North Ossetia to the breakaway Republic of South Ossetia during the night of 11-12 June. President Mikheil Saakashvili denounced that deployment on 12 June as an \"unfriendly act\" on Russia\'s part and said he plans to raise the issue with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Saakashvili denied that any Georgian military intervention in South Ossetia is planned, stressing that \"we love the Ossetians and no one will prevent us from living together.RUSSIAN MILITARY DENY TRANSFER OF TROOPS TO SOUTH OSSETIA
By empty (6/12/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Russian Defense Ministry did not confirm that military hardware was brought to South Ossetia from Russia. \"The Defense Ministry\'s press service does not confirm the information that weapons and military hardware have been transferred to Georgian territory from Russia,\" a Defense Ministry spokesman told Interfax on Saturday. As was reported earlier, Chairman of the Georgian parliamentary defense and national security committee Givi Targamadze told the press in Tbilisi on Saturday that about 150 vehicles carrying military personnel, weapons, and ammunition had entered South Ossetia from Russia overnight.KAZAKH OPPOSITION PARTIES HOLD RALLY
By empty (6/12/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Opposition parties Ak Zhol, Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan, and the Communist Party held an authorized rally in Almaty on 12 June that organizers said drew approximately 5,000 people. Ak Zhol initiated the demonstration, under the slogan of \"Changes for a Dignified Life.\" \"We call on the government and the authorities to have an open dialogue with us,\" Ak Zhol co-Chairman Bulat Abilov said.MOSCOW URGES CAUTION AMONG FOREIGNERS VISITING CAUCASUS
By empty (6/11/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Moscow has called on foreign citizens to take security precautions when they visit the North Caucasus, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Razov said at a meeting with Slovakia\'s Ambassador Augustin Cisar on Friday. The Foreign Ministry said that Cisar \"turned to the Russian authorities for assistance in searching for a Slovak national working for a Czech humanitarian organization who went missing on the way from Pyatigorsk to Ingushetia.\" \"Razov assured [the ambassador] that all essential measures are being taken to find the possible whereabouts of the missing woman.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.