News Digest
SON OF LATE CHECHEN PRESIDENT KADYROV FOUND DEAD
By empty (5/31/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The elder son of the late Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov, 29 year-old Zelimkhan Kadyrov, was found dead on Monday in his home in the settlement of Tsentoroi, a source in the Chechen Health Ministry told Interfax. According to the ministry\'s data, the cause of death has not yet been determined.At the same time, the source said that \"there were no signs of a violent death.US TROOPS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
By empty (5/30/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Four US soldiers have been killed in action in southern Afghanistan, the US military says. The deaths occurred in the province of Zabul, which has seen regular attacks by Islamic militants. \"Four US service members assigned to the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Afghanistan were killed in action today.TWENTY CHECHEN REBELS KILLED OVER PAST 3 DAYS
By empty (5/29/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Chechen guerilla units have lost up to 20 people over the past three days, said spokesman for the regional headquarters for the antiterrorist operation in the North Caucasus Col. Ilya Shabalkin. On May 26, federal forces launched special operations to hunt down guerillas led by warlords Abdullayev and Tasuyev in the Shali, Shatoi, and Vedeno districts in southern Chechnya.CENTRAL ASIAN LEADERS SAY AFGHANISTAN MUST FIGHT DRUGS
By empty (5/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The problem of drug trafficking from Afghanistan needs to be resolved within Afghanistan itself, said Uzbek and Tajik Presidents Islam Karimov and Emomali Rakhmonov. \"Until this problem is resolved in Afghanistan itself, and until Afghanistan earmarks money to discourage the population from producing opium, no solution can be found. All these barriers that we are erecting are a secondary thing,\" Karimov said at a Friday press conference in Astana, following a regular meeting of the Central Asian Cooperation organization heads of state.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, "Promise and Peril in the Caucasus," AFPC Insights, March 30, 2023.
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Putin's War In Ukraine and the Crimean War), 19fourtyfive, January 2, 2023
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Russia Needs Its Own Charles de Gaulle, Foreign Policy, July 21, 2022.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Rethinking Greater Central Asia: American and Western Stakes in the Region and How to Advance Them, June 2022
Oped Svante E. Cornell & Albert Barro, With referendum, Kazakh President pushes for reforms, Euractiv, June 3, 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell Russia's Southern Neighbors Take a Stand, The Hill, May 6, 2022.
Silk Road Paper Johan Engvall, Between Bandits and Bureaucrats: 30 Years of Parliamentary Development in Kyrgyzstan, January 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell, No, The War in Ukraine is not about NATO, The Hill, March 9, 2022.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, Kazakhstan’s Crisis Calls for a Central Asia Policy Reboot, The National Interest, January 34, 2022.
Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Starr & Albert Barro, Political and Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan Under President Tokayev, November 2021.