News Digest
KYRGYZ PARLIAMENTARY BUGGING SCANDAL GROWS
By empty (1/16/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
As of the beginning of the Kyrgyz Legislative Assembly\'s 16 January session, listening devices had been found in the offices of seven parliamentarians. The scandal erupted two days earlier when General Ismail Isakov, head of the parliamentary State Security Committee and a former security official, announced he had found a bug in his office. Other parliamentarians made similar discoveries and, in a special session on 15 January, accused the National Security Service of planting the devices.GEORGIAN DEFENSE MINISTER LEAVES FOR IRAQ
By empty (1/16/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Defense Minister Davit Tevzadze left Tbilisi on 15 January to visit Iraq to inspect a Georgian peacekeeping detachment currently deployed in the town of Tikrit. The Georgian detachment, deployed in Iraq since August, includes mine-clearing specialists and doctors. It is to be replaced by another group of 200 Georgian soldiers, and the country is also planning to dispatch an entire 500-soldier battalion to Iraq sometime this summer.GEORGIAN CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION RELEASES FINAL RESULTS FROM SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT
By empty (1/16/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Central Election Commission (CEC) released the final results on 15 January of the 4 January special presidential ballot, according to the Rustavi-2 website. With more than 1.9 million of the country\'s 2.EXXONMOBIL REPORTS ON INVESTMENTS IN AZERBAIJAN
By empty (1/15/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Exxon Azerbaijan Operating Company, a subsidiary of the U.S. company ExxonMobil, invested more than $1.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.