News Digest
CONFUSION SURROUNDS RUSSIAN TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM TAJIKISTAN
By empty (5/26/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian troops began to withdraw from the Khorugh and Kulob sections of the Tajik-Afghan border on 24 May, Tajik Radio reported the next day. There is widespread confusion over what is actually happening along the border, where Russian troops are scheduled to begin handing over control to Tajik forces later this year. Russia\'s \"Nezavisimaya gazeta\" reported on 25 May that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov has called reports of a complete Russian withdrawal from Tajikistan \"total nonsense,\" while Sabza Sarkorov, deputy chairman of the Tajik State Border Committee, more specifically denied that Russian troops are being withdrawn from the border.U.S. CALLS FOR CHANGES TO TAJIK ELECTION LAW
By empty (5/25/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Douglas Davidson, deputy chief of the U.S. mission to the OSCE, called on Tajikistan\'s parliament on 25 May to make changes to the country\'s election law.PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN TO BE LAUNCHED IN CHECHNYA
By empty (5/24/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The presidential election campaign in Chechnya will begin on May 25. Chechnya will hold early presidential elections on August 29 because of the death of Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov in the terrorist act at Grozny\'s Dynamo stadium on May 9. The Chechen elections commission will begin receiving documents from future candidates on Tuesday, commission deputy head Buvai-Sari Arsakhanov told Interfax.TWO FIELD COMMANDERS BEHIND MAY 9 ATTACK KILLED IN CHECHNYA
By empty (5/24/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Two field commanders involved in the organization of the May 9 terrorist attack in Grozny have been killed on the outskirts of Grozny, spokesman for the headquarters of the federal forces in the North Caucasus Col. Ilya Shabalkin told Interfax on Monday. Shabalkin said that a group of five rebels had been discovered in a search effort by federal forces in the southwestern outskirts of Grozny.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.