News Digest
GEORGIA PRESIDENT TO MEET WITH BUSH
By empty (2/20/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The new president of the troubled Caucasus Mountain nation of Georgia is due for an Oval Office session with President Bush exactly a month after he took the country\'s helm, the White House announced Friday. Georgia President Mikhail Saakashvili was inaugurated Jan. 25, two months after the bloodless ouster of Georgia\'s longtime leader, Eduard Shevardnadze.SHEVARDNADZE SON-IN-LAW ARRESTED
By empty (2/20/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Police in Georgia have arrested the son-in-law of former President Eduard Shevardnadze on tax evasion charges. Gia Jokhtaberidze, head of Georgia\'s biggest mobile phone company, was arrested on board a flight to Paris. Prosecutor General Irakly Okruashvili, who personally oversaw the arrest, said Mr Jokhtaberidze had defied a warning not to leave the country pending the outcome of an investigation.ELECTION COMMISSION SAYS FEDERAL CHANNELS JUST DOING THEIR JOB
By empty (2/20/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The TsIK rejected on 20 February complaints by presidential candidates Irina Khakamada and Nikolai Kharitonov about television and radio coverage of President Putin\'s 12 February speech to his election agents, Russian media reported. The commission ruled that the programming reflected the public interest and that the stations were only informing the electorate, not campaigning. According to the TsIK, state-controlled ORT and RTR said they will provide equal news coverage of all presidential candidates for the remainder of the campaign for the 14 March election.INTERNATIONAL NGOS MUST REREGISTER IN UZBEKISTAN
By empty (2/19/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Uzbek Foreign Ministry on 19 February warned international NGOs working in Uzbekistan that they are required to reregister with the Justice Ministry by 1 March or their bank accounts will be frozen. Earlier in the week, domestic NGOs in Bukhara reported their bank accounts were being frozen unless they agreed to move their accounts to two approved banks in the city. First Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov tried to convince the foreign NGOs that the Uzbek attitude toward them and their work has not changed, but at least some of the foreigners were skeptical, according to the news agency.Visit also
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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.