News Digest
AFGHAN FOOTBALLERS GO \'MISSING\'
By empty (4/13/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Nine members of Afghanistan\'s national football team have gone missing while on tour in Italy. The team\'s spokesman said the players failed to return from a night out in the northern town of Verona on Monday. \"We don\'t know if they were looking for economic asylum or if they just stayed out all night at a disco.INJURIES REPORTED IN YEREVAN CLASHES
By empty (4/13/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Several people sustained injuries during clashes between police and participants in a demonstration staged by two opposition parties outside the presidential residence in Yerevan. The clashes occurred at 2:00 a.m.QATAR TRIAL OF SUSPECTS IN CHECHEN LEADER\'S ASSASSINATION OPENS
By empty (4/13/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A municipal court in Doha launched the trial on 12 April of two Russian security-service employees accused of organizing the February car bombing in Qatar that killed former acting Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiev. The trial was adjourned until May on a request by the defense after both suspects -- identified in Arabic media as Anatolii Belashkov and Vasilii Bokchov -- pleaded not guilty at their hearing. Western media have reported that the two Russians admitted their guilt to Qatari investigators.US REVIEWS UZBEK MILITARY TIES
By empty (4/13/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The commander of US forces in Afghanistan, General David Barno, is in the Uzbek capital Tashkent to meet Uzbek government officials. The US has a military base in Uzbekistan to back up its troops in Afghanistan and sees the Uzbeks as essential allies in the war on terror. The visit comes just as Washington is due to decide whether to renew its substantial aid budget to Uzbekistan.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.