News Digest
TURKMENISTAN PROTESTS ASSAULT ON MOSCOW EMBASSY
By empty (12/26/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Turkmen Embassy in Moscow sent a note on 26 December to the Russian Foreign Ministry protesting an assault on the embassy on 25 December by unidentified people throwing bottles of black paint. According to some reports, on 26 December, radical writer Eduard Limonov\'s National Bolshevik Party claimed responsibility for the attack. The Russian Foreign Ministry responded to the Turkmen note with an expression of regret and a statement that the culprits are being sought by police.GEORGIAN, RUSSIAN LEADERS HOLD \'BREAKTHROUGH\' TALKS
By empty (12/25/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Acting Georgian President Nino Burdjanadze held talks in Moscow on 24 December with Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and, the following day, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov. Upon her return to Tbilisi, Burdjanadze described her talks with Putin as open, sincere, and a step toward overcoming mutual hostility between the two countries. Topics discussed reportedly included Russia\'s suspension of its visa requirement for residents of Georgia\'s Adjar Autonomous Republic, bilateral trade and economic cooperation, and the closure of the Russian military bases in Georgia.CHECHEN WARLORD BASAYEV CLAIMS LATEST ATTACKS IN RUSSIA
By empty (12/24/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Breakaway Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev has claimed two suicide attacks carried out this month in southern Russia and Moscow and warned other attacks would follow, according to the pro-independence website kavkazcenter.com. \"Our martyrs\' fighting brigade carried out two attacks under our operation Boomerang in Yessentuki (Ingushetia) and in Moscow, aimed at forcing the Russians to make peace,\" Basayev said.FORMER GEORGIAN ENERGY MINISTER SUFFERS HEART ATTACK UNDER INTERROGATION
By empty (12/24/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
After reportedly suffering a heart attack, David Mirtskhulava was taken on 24 December to a hospital from the Prosecutor-General\'s Office, to which he had been summoned for questioning about the embezzlement of some $2.2 million intended to pay for electricity supplied to Georgia by Armenia. Georgian presidential candidate Mikhail Saakashvili said Mirtskhulava was arrested because he planned to flee to Russia via Abkhazia.Visit also
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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.