News Digest
INTERNET AND LONG-DISTANCE NETWORK PHONE CONNECTION IN SOUTH OSSETIA OUT OF ORDER FOR THREE DAYS ALREADY
By empty (9/19/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Internet and long-distance network phone connection in South Ossetia has been out of order for three days already. The fault was caused by damage to a communication line in Gori (Georgia).A Regnum correspondent informed on it at South Ossetia’s national communication company.ARMENIAN PART LEADER: ARMENIAN –USA RELATIONS ARE IN DANGER
By empty (9/19/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Leader of the opposition Democratic Fatherland Party Petros Makeyan believes both Armenia-USA relations and Armenia’s authority in the world “are in danger.” According to him, the USA has good relations only with the countries that are devoted to democracy and respect human rights, which for Armenia is an abstract concept. “Disrespect for Armenia” by the USA, says Petros Makeyan, is confirmed by the fact that the USA, opinion of which is very respectable in the UN, allowed introducing the issue of “frozen conflicts” into the agenda of the 61st session of the UN General Assembly under the GUAM initiative.CHECHEN, INGUSH PARLIAMENT SPEAKERS APPEAL FOR CALM
By empty (9/19/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov and Makhmud Sakalov, chairmen of the lower chambers of the Chechen and Ingush parliaments respectively, issued a joint appeal on September 15 in the wake of the shoot-out two days earlier on the border between those two federation subjects between Chechen Interior Ministry special forces (OMON) and Ingush traffic police in which eight men died, ingushetiya.ru reported. The two men cautioned against construing the incident as an interethnic clash, and they stressed the need for law-enforcement agencies in the two republics to coordinate their activities more closely when conducting cross-border operations.CHECHEN RESISTANCE LEADER\'S BROTHER VANISHES
By empty (9/19/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Akhmad Umarov, who reportedly turned himself in to pro-Moscow Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov on August 18 in response to FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev\'s July appeal to militants in the North Caucasus to surrender, disappeared several days after footage of his surrender was screened on Russian television, the resistance website kavkazcenter.com reported on September 15. None of Umarov\'s relatives or friends have any idea of his whereabouts.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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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.
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