News Digest
HYUNDAI PURSUING PLANT IN UZBEKISTAN
By empty (10/13/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Hyundai Motor Co., the world\'s sixth-largest automaker, said Friday it is in talks with the Uzbekistan government to buy state-owned UZ-Daewoo Motors, formerly owned by South Korea\'s now-defunct Daewoo Group. \"Nothing has been decided,\" said a Hyundai Motor spokesman, Jake Jang.GEORGIAN TEACHERS CONDEMN RUSSIA\'S \"PERSECUTION\" OF GEORGIANS
By empty (10/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Several dozen members of the Georgian trade union of teachers demonstrated outside the Russian embassy in Tbilisi on Thursday demanding an end to what they called the persecution of Georgians by authorities in Russia. \"We protest against the open persecution of Georgians by the Russian authorities. Georgians in Russia have found themselves in the situation Jews were in in Nazi Germany in the 30s,\" one of the organizers, Manana Burchumelidze, told reporters.UZBEKISTAN TO ALMOST DOUBLE GAS EXPORT PRICE
By empty (10/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbekistan warned Russia and its Central Asian neighbours on Thursday it would almost double its gas export price at the start of next year. Uzbek state pipeline company Uztransgas published a statement in an Uzbek newspaper saying it would charge $100 per 1,000 cubic metres from Jan.1, 2007, up from a current $55-60.FOOD AID DWINDLING IN CHECHNYA, AZERBAIJAN: U.N. ENVOY
By empty (10/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Food aid in Russia\'s Chechnya and in neighboring Azerbaijan is dwindling because of funding shortages and could run out within weeks, a United Nations envoy said on Thursday. Jean Ziegler, the U.N.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.