News Digest
U.S. RIGHTS GROUP HAILS EU MOVE ON TURKMENISTAN
By empty (10/5/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday the European Union\'s decision to abandon a trade pact with the reclusive Central Asian state of Turkmenistan was a \"landmark move against tyranny.TBILISI THREATENS TO BLOCK RUSSIA\'S WTO ACCESSION
By empty (10/4/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tbilisi may block the process of Russia\'s accession to the World Trade Organization if it does not lift economic sanctions against Georgia, president of the National Bank of Georgia Roman Gotsiridze told reporters on Wednesday. \"The economic sanctions against Georgia, imposed by Russia, are unjustified and inadequate,\" Gotsiridze said. He called upon the Russian authorities to lift the sanctions.AFGHAN CLASHES DISPLACE THOUSANDS
By empty (10/4/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tens of thousands of people have been driven from their homes by fighting in southern Afghanistan in recent months, the UN refugee agency has said. Between 80,000 and 90,000 people had been displaced by the conflict in the provinces of Helmand, Kandahar and Uruzgan, the UNHCR said. The figure brings the total displaced in the area to about 200,000, it said.STRIKE CUTS MITTAL’S COAL OUTPUT
By empty (10/3/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A weeklong strike at Mittal Steel NV’s coal mines in Kazakhstan has led to a 30 percent decline in daily steel output at the company’s giant Temirtau mill, a senior executive from the plant said Tuesday.“The plant is totally dependent on coal supplied by our mines,” Victor Sherba, director of technical innovation and customer relations, told Dow Jones Newswires. Sherba said the decrease had not affected customers because it was offset by production increases in other countries where Mittal operates, such as Poland and Romania.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.