News Digest
RUSSIAN TROOPS IN KYRGYZSTAN GRANTED IMMUNITY
By empty (5/11/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan\'s parliament on 11 May ratified an agreement that grants immunity to Russian servicemen deployed to the Russian air-force base in Kant, Kyrgyzstan. Should Russian soldiers commit offenses, they will be tried under Russian, not Kyrgyz, law. U.AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT PARDONS MORE THAN 300 PRISONERS
By empty (5/10/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
To mark the birthday of his deceased father and predecessor Heidar Aliyev, President Aliyev signed a decree on 10 May pardoning 363 prisoners. Those freed include several human rights activists and individuals considered by the Council of Europe to be political prisoners, among them the former acting head of the Baku Naval College, Djanmirza Mirzoev. Mirzoev was sentenced in November 2001 to eight years\' imprisonment on charges, which he denied, of arranging the murder in 1993 of Rear Admiral Eduard Huseinov.FORMER ADJAR OFFICIALS ARRESTED
By empty (5/8/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At least five senior Adjar officials have been arrested since the resignation and departure for Moscow on 5 May of Adjar Supreme Council Chairman Aslan Abashidze. Murad Tsintsadze and his son Merab, both of them senior Interior Ministry personnel, were detained in Batumi on 8 May, as was Kobuleti Governor Tariel Khalvashi, the man responsible for barring Saakashvili from entering Adjaria in mid-March. Khalvashi has been charged with persecuting the opposition to Abashidze and illegally distributing weapons to the population.ABASHIDZE\'S CARS AND DOGS TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION
By empty (5/8/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian Prosecutor General Irakly Okruashvili told the press about plans to auction off some of former Ajarian leader Aslan Abashidze\'s property, in particular, three expensive Hummer vehicles as well as pedigree dogs. \"Taking care of these dogs cost much more than the healthcare expenses for Ajaria\'s Khelvachauri district,\" Okruashvili said. Meanwhile, the television company Mze showed outdoor cages in which about 200 of Abashidze\'s pedigree dogs, primarily Caucasian shepherd dogs, are kept.Visit also
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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.