News Digest
ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK TO FUND UZBEK HEALTH CARE
By empty (4/22/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbekistan\'s Agency for Foreign Economic Relations announced on 22 April that the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) will provide $25 million to supply regional branches of the National Intensive Care Center with specialized equipment. Overall, the IDB has allocated $60 million for Uzbekistan in 2004, and a total of $456.5 million for 16 projects for the period 2004-2007.PUTIN REJECTS EU CALL FOR TALKS WITH CHECHEN SEPARATISTS
By empty (4/21/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Vladimir Putin has likened the European Union\'s call for Moscow to establish a dialogue with the Chechen separatists to bin Laden\'s truce proposal to Europe. \"As previously, we are now being urged to start talks and a dialogue with the people whom we and our partners in Muslim countries consider terrorists. Terrorist Number One, bin Laden, made a truce proposal to Europe which, as far as I know, was rejected,\" Putin said at a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Lipetsk on Wednesday.ARMENIA, IRAN NEGOTIATING GAS PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION
By empty (4/21/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Yerevan is holding talks with Tehran on constructing a gas pipeline between Iran and Armenia to fully satisfy Armenia\'s internal demand for gas, President Robert Kocharian said at a Tuesday press conference. No other options are being discussed, because they could be problematic for Armenia, Kocharian said. \"We are discussing this project only with the purpose to improve Armenia\'s energy security,\" the president said.TURKISH MERCENARY KILLED IN CHECHNYA
By empty (4/21/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A Turkish mercenary was killed in a federal special operation in Chechnya\'s Vedeno district, a military spokesman told Interfax. \"The man who was killed had a passport under the name of Turkish citizen Semek Yusif [transliterated from Russian] with a Georgian visa, opened on July 7, 2002; a card of the Turkish Taekwondo Federation, issued in February 1991; a lawyer\'s card, issued in February 1996; and other documents with Turkish entries,\" said spokesman Col. Ilya Shabalkin.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.