News Digest
REGIONAL PARTY TAKES DISPUTED LEAD IN GEORGIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION
By empty (11/6/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia\'s Central Election Commission (CEC) announced late on 6 November that with some 90 percent of the ballots counted, the Democratic Revival Union (DAK) headed by Adjar Supreme Council Chairman Aslan Abashidze had taken the lead with 23.5 percent of the vote, followed by the pro-presidential For a New Georgia (AS) bloc with 21 percent and the opposition National Movement (EM) with 19.2 percent.PROTESTERS GATHER FOR GEORGIA RALLY
By empty (11/5/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Anti-government demonstrators in Georgia are gathering for a second day of protests after Sunday\'s general election. Main opposition leader Mikhail Saakashvili has told President Eduard Shevardnadze that he must resign by midday on Wednesday or concede victory. Large number of police and security forces were being deployed in the capital, Tbilisi, as protesters gathered ahead of the deadline.CASPIAN STATES INK DEAL TO PROTECT THREATENED SEA
By empty (11/4/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Caspian states backed an initiative on Tuesday to protect their shared sea from overfishing and oil pollution which is gradually destroying the world\'s main habitat for caviar sturgeon. Environmental groups say wildlife in the Caspian Sea is gradually dying out -- sturgeon stocks have fallen by 90 percent since the late 1970s. Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan signed the framework agreement, put forward by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), to tackle the problem.CASPIAN OIL PIPELINE PASSES TESTS -WORLD BANK
By empty (11/4/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The World Bank Group\'s oil director said on Tuesday a major Caspian Sea oil project warranted its support and had passed the environmental and social criteria. The International Financial Corp, the World Bank\'s private sector arm, on Tuesday approved up to $310 million in loans for the project, which includes investment in a pipeline that stretched from Azerbaijan\'s capital Baku, through Tbilisi, Georgia and on to Turkey\'s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. \"It is fair to say that these kinds of projects entail some risks but we feel the risks have been mitigated or addressed,\" Rashad Kaldany, director of the group\'s oil, gas, mining and chemical department told Reuters.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.