News Digest
ARMENIA SIGNS AGREEMENT ON GAS SUPPLIES WITH IRAN
By empty (5/14/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Managing Director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Roknoddin Javad and General Director of the Yerevany Power Station Ovakim Ovanessian have signed an agreement on gas supplies to Armenia, Arminfo news agency reported. According to Armenian Energy Minister Armen Movsisian, Armenia and Iran will construct a pipeline in two years and make it operational before January 1, 2007. Iran has agreed to deliver not less than 1.CHECHEN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD AFTER AUG 15
By empty (5/14/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Russian Central Elections Commission (CEC) will provide all necessary assistance to the Election Commission of Chechnya to lay the groundwork for Chechen presidential elections, CEC Chairman Alexander Veshnyakov told the press on Friday. The election will be scheduled by the republic\'s Election Commission between August 15 and September 5, he said. If there is just one candidate, the election will be put off, Veshnyakov said.US ATTACKED OVER AFGHAN \'ABUSE\'
By empty (5/13/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
US troops in Afghanistan have been accused of \"systemic\" abuse of prisoners by a human rights group. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said it had documented \"numerous cases of mistreatment of detainees,\" similar to those reported in Iraq. The group said it had repeatedly warned Washington about the problems.GEORGIA WELCOMES RUSSIAN INVESTORS IN AJARIA
By empty (5/13/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia\'s government is prepared to allow major Russian investors the opportunity to put their money into the Ajarian economy, Georgian Economics Minister Irakly Rekhviashvili told Mze television on Wednesday. Tbilisi and Batumi will soon host a Georgian-Russian economic forum, at which specific investment projects will be presented, Rekhviashvili said. \"Among priority projects are the development of the Batumi seaport, airport, oil refineries, a shipbuilding plant, and other large enterprises,\" he said.Visit also
Staff Publications
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.