News Digest
KAZAKH MINISTRY SAYS HIV OUTBREAK CONTAINED
By empty (10/10/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakh Health Minister Anatoly Dernovoi told a cabinet meeting on October 10 that an HIV outbreak in South Kazakhstan province has been contained. Dernovoi said that an investigation revealed 76 HIV-positive children and six child deaths after 9,070 children, 174 blood donors, 3,143 medical workers, and 18,861 women were examined. Twelve criminal cases have been opened in connection with the outbreak.RUSSIAN CITIZENS PREPARED TO LEAVE TBILISI BY CARGO AIRCRAFT
By empty (10/9/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian citizens who were due to leave Tbilisi for Moscow by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry aircraft are not leaving Tbilisi airport despite the cancellation of the flights. Some Russians said that they are ready to fly to Moscow by cargo aircraft, because they their Georgian visas had expired and they were without money. Earlier on Monday, the Georgian department of civil aviation received a request on the landing of two Russian Emergency Situations Ministry\'s planes: a passenger plane and a cargo aircraft, the department told Interfax.HEAD OF LOCAL ADMINISTRATION KILLED IN CHECHNYA
By empty (10/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The head of the administration of the village of Eni-Kali in Chechnya\'s Kurchaloi district has been assassinated, a local law enforcement source told Interfax Sunday. Unidentified attackers also fired upon the building housing the local elections commission. Six communities in the Kurchaloi district and a number of others in the Nozhai-Yurt district are holding early elections of deputies to the Chechen People\'s Assembly on Sunday.ARMENIAN CANDIDATE ELECTED AT MIXED ARMENIAN-GEORGIAN VOTING STATION IN AKHALTSIKHI REGION
By empty (10/6/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Armenian Aram Vardanyan was elected in the municipal elections at the Tsukhrut village of Akhaltsikhi region of Georgia where Georgian Naira Samsonidze was alternative candidate. Vardanyan received 650 votes, whereas Samsonidze – about 120, A-Info agency reports. According to a source, the victory of the Armenian candidate is especially meaningful, since the Georgian candidate was supported not only by Georgian voters but also by representative of the ruling Georgian party United National Movement Aram Pogosov, who reportedly used his connections.Visit also
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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.