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, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.
Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024.
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.