News Digest
OSCE SAYS GEORGIAN BALLOT SHOWED \'PROGRESS\'
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The conduct of the 4 January Georgian presidential election reflected \"notable progress\" and \"political will\" on the part of the country\'s leadership and constituted \"a welcome contrast to the deeply flawed 2 November parliamentary elections,\" Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly President Bruce George said in Tbilisi on 5 January, according to an OSCE press release (http://www.osce.org/news/generate.UZBEK OPPOSITION MOVEMENT\'S REGISTRATION ATTEMPT REJECTED
By empty (1/4/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Uzbek Justice Ministry has rejected the opposition Birlik (Unity) movement\'s second attempt to register as a political party. The first registration attempt was rejected in October 2003. According to Birlik Secretary-General Vasila Inoyatova, the movement is eager to register so that it can participate as a party in parliamentary elections scheduled for the end of 2004.GEORGIA ELECTS A PRESIDENT
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According to exit polls and unofficial estimates, National Movement Chairman Mikhail Saakashvili was elected Georgian president on 4 January with between 85-90 percent of the vote, Georgian and Russian media reported. Of Saakashvili\'s five rival candidates, former Imereti Governor Temur Shashiashvili polled just under 2 percent and the others less than 1 percent. Mdzleveli candidate Zurab Kelekhsashvili\'s 3 January request to pull out of the ballot reached the Central Election Commission (CEC) too late for his name to be removed from ballot papers.KAZAKHSTAN LAUNCHES SPACE PROGRAM
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Kazakhstan has launched a space program by sending a government commission to Russia\'s Khrunichev State Space Center to build the Kazakhstan\'s first telecommunications satellite. Kazakh Prime Minister Daniyal Akhmetov discussed the construction and launching of the satellite with Khrunichev Center Director Aleksandr Medvedev in Astana on 31 December. The project, which also includes the training of Kazakh aerospace specialists, will be financed through a state innovation fund that was set up in 2003.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Rethinking Greater Central Asia: American and Western Stakes in the Region and How to Advance Them, June 2022
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Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
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