News Digest
NORTH OSSETIAN PRESIDENT CONDEMNS GEORGIAN PRESSURE ON CO-ETHNICS
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Aleksandr Dzasokhov arrived in the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, on 6 June and met with the unrecognized republic\'s president, Eduard Kokoity, and with parliament speaker Znaur Gassiev. Their talks focused on the socioeconomic integration of the two Ossetian republics. Dzasokhov also met with representatives of the local population.DETAILS EMERGE ON RUSSIAN-TAJIK AGREEMENT
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New details emerged on 7 June about the agreement on military cooperation that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Tajik counterpart Imomali Rakhmonov signed at their 4 June meeting in Sochi. A source in the Tajik presidential administration told the news agency that Russia will write off $250 million of Tajik debt in exchange for the space-surveillance center in Nurek. Russia will use the remaining $50 million of Tajik debt to invest in projects inside Tajikistan.KAZAKHSTAN WASHES HANDS OF BRIBERY CASE
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The Kazakh government will not interfere in the New York trial of a U.S. businessman accused of offering bribes for oil contracts, Radio Free Europe says.POLICE BREAK UP ANTI-U.S. PICKET IN AZERBAIJAN
By empty (6/5/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Police in the Azerbaijani capital on Saturday broke up an unsanctioned opposition rally staged outside the U.S. Embassy to protest the war in Iraq.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.