News Digest
RUSSIAN JUSTICE MINISTRY AGAINST OUTLAWING WAHHABISM
By empty (4/24/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Russian Justice Ministry has objected to the idea of outlawing the radical Islamic movement known as Wahhabism and punishing its followers. \"Persecuting people for religious beliefs means violating the constitution and other laws. People must be punished for specific actions and violations of the law,\" chief of the Justice Ministry\'s department for non-government and religious organizations Alexander Kudryavtsev told Interfax.AZERBAIJANI DEFENSE MINISTER REJECTS CALL FOR KARABAKH COMPROMISE
By empty (4/24/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
During talks on 23 April in Baku with Azerbaijani Defense Minister Colonel General Safar Abiev, U.S. Ambassador Steven Mann, who is the U.FOUR SENTENCED FOR PLANNING ATTACK ON U.S. BASE IN KYRGYZSTAN
By empty (4/23/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The capital\'s Leninsky District Court sentenced three Kyrgyz citizens and one Kazakh citizen to long prison terms for preparing a terror attack against the U.S. air base at Bishkek\'s Manas airport, defense attorneys told Interfax.CHECHEN WARLORD SAYS HIS SUBORDINATES HAVE SURRENDERED
By empty (4/22/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Magomed Khambiyev, a Chechen separatist leader and former \"interior minister of Ichkeria,\" who surrendered in early March, said all his subordinates have surrendered their arms and have turned themselves in to the law enforcement agencies. \"I can say confidently that all the rebels who were with me or reported to me have voluntarily refused to continue armed resistance and have applied for amnesty,\" Khambiyev told reporters in Gudermes on Thursday. Khambiyev refused to give the exact number of rebels who have surrendered, saying he was not authorized to release such information.Visit also
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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.