News Digest
ABKHAZIA WILL RECOGNIZE RESULTS OF TRANSDNIESTRIA REFERENDUM - LEADER
By empty (9/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Sergei Bagapsh, president of the breakaway republic of Abkhazia, has said his republic fully supports the aspirations of the self-proclaimed republic of Transdniestria toward independence and integration with Russia. \"We fully recognize the results of the referendum held in Transdniestria on Sunday. Abkhazia supports the aspirations of Transdniestria toward independence and its choice of unification with Russia,\" he told Interfax on Monday.UZBEK COURT SENTENCES IMAM TO LENGTHY PRISON TERM
By empty (9/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An Uzbek regional court in Tashkent issued a ruling on September 15 sentencing prominent imam Ruhiddin Fakhriddinovto a 17-year prison term, RFE/RL\'s Uzbek Service reported. Rakhriddinovto was convicted on charges of religious extremism and terrorism in a closed trial held in the town of Chirchiq, north of Tashkent. Fakhriddinov, who was captured in southern Kazakhstan in November 2005 after evading arrest since 1998, is accused by the Uzbek authorities of being a leader of the banned radical Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU).THREE MILITANTS VOLUNTARILY SURRENDER IN CHECHNYA
By empty (9/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Three members of criminal armed groups have applied for amnesty in Chechnya in the past 24 hours, Chechen Interior Ministry spokesman Magomed Deniyev told Interfax on Sunday. \"Two of them supplied food and clothes to the illegal armed group, led by field commander Mitaliyev. The other, a resident of Grozny, fought against federal troops in 1995-96,\" Deniyev said.ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER WARNS THAT UN ACTION DIVERTS FROM KARABAKH PEACE PROCESS
By empty (9/16/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Speaking to reporters in Yerevan following an annual meeting of the Armenian diplomatic corps, Vardan Oskanian warned on September 16 that a recent Azerbaijani diplomatic initiative in the United Nations \"diverts attention\" from the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process and may even \"slow it down.\" The foreign minister was referring to an initiative of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development-GUAM group seeking to add the issue of the region\'s \"frozen\" conflicts to the agenda of the UN General Assembly. Oskanian characterized this as is a \"new challenge\" for Armenia, but said that it stems from the fact that \"pressure on Azerbaijan is growing.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.