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KAZAKHSTAN TO JOIN RUSSIA\'S INITIATIVE TO SET UP INTL NUCLEAR CYCLE CENTER – PUTIN
By empty (10/3/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said that his country would join Russia\'s initiative to set up an international center that would provide nuclear cycle services in Russia, under the International Atomic Energy Agency\'s control, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. \"Taking into account the Kazakh nuclear power industry\'s scientific and productive potential, Nursultan Nazarbayev has decided to hook Kazakhstan to the Russian initiative to set up an international center that would provide a nuclear fuel cycle, including uranium enrichment, in Russia under the IAEA\'s control,\" Putin said at a press conference in Uralsk on Tuesday. (Interfax).PUTIN ARRIVES IN URALSK TO MEET KAZAKH PRESIDENT
By empty (10/3/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Uralsk where he will meet Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and attend a forum of the border regions of the two countries. During his visit the governments of the two countries are expected to sign a cooperation agreement related to the Orenburg gas processing plant. Earlier Nazarbayev said that the agreement will provide for setting up a joint venture to process gas extracted from the Karachaganak gas condensate field.RUSSIAN OFFICERS DETAINED IN GEORGIA HANDED OVER TO OSCE HEAD
By empty (10/2/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The four Russian officers detained in Georgia on espionage charges have been handed over to Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Chairman-in-Office Karel de Gucht. The servicemen have left for Tbilisi Airport to catch a Russia-bound flight. The ceremony took place at the headquarters of the Georgian Prosecutor General\'s Office at around 5:30 p.THIRTEEN GEORGIANS TO BE DEPORTED FROM MOSCOW
By empty (10/2/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Moscow authorities are preparing to deport 13 Georgian citizens who have been living in the city without the required documents, the press service of the Moscow department of the Federal Migration Service told Interfax. The thirteen currently being held at the pre-trial detention center for foreigners, the press service said. \"The Preobrazhensky inter-district court took the decision on their deportation,\" the press service said.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.