News Digest
RUSSIAN EXPERTS SUPPORT ARMENIAN REFUSAL TO CLOSE NUCLEAR-POWER PLANT
By empty (10/27/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Several Russian nuclear-power experts announced on 24 October that they support the Armenian government\'s decision to continue operating Armenia\'s sole nuclear-power plant, according to RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau. In a statement released on 24 October, Armen Abakian, the director of a Moscow-based nuclear research institute, dismissed concerns that the Medzamor facility poses environmental risks and contended that the plant can safely operate for at least another 13 years. The European Union and several environmental groups have called on the Armenian government to close the aging Soviet-era plant, arguing that the plant\'s light-water reactor is inherently dangerous and unstable.U.S. AMBASSADOR CRITICIZES KHODORKOVSKII ARREST
By empty (10/27/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Commenting on Mikhail Khodorkovskii\'s arrest, U.S. Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow said the U.KABUL STRIKES DEAL WITH WARLORDS
By empty (10/26/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The government in Kabul has reached an agreement with two rival regional leaders in northern Afghanistan under which they will merge their forces, according to a senior advisor to the Afghan interior minister. There have been repeated outbreaks of factional fighting between soldiers loyal to the two leaders, Abdul Rashid Dostum and Ata Muhammad. The government\'s attempt to broker a deal comes as Kabul begins an ambitious United Nations-backed programme to disarm many of Afghanistan\'s private militias.KAZAKH PRESIDENT\'S DAUGHTER NAMED HEAD OF NEW POLITICAL PARTY
By empty (10/25/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At a congress in Almaty on 25 October, the Asar (All Together) public movement transformed itself into a political party and unanimously elected Darigha Nazarbaeva, eldest daughter of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, the party\'s leader. The congress was attended by 1,300 delegates, who also selected a seven-person leadership council and adopted a party platform. At a news conference following the congress, Nazarbaeva rejected claims that she has presidential ambitions.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.