News Digest
RUSSIA, IRAN TO SIGN NUKE FUEL DEAL IN SEPTEMBER
By empty (8/26/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russia and Iran, keen to ease U.S. concerns over their nuclear ties, will sign in September an agreement requiring Tehran to return nuclear waste to Moscow, a Russian Atomic Energy Ministry official said on Tuesday.DRUGS FROM AFGHANISTAN FLOOD RUSSIA
By empty (8/27/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Heroin from Afghanistan is sweeping through Russia with drug trafficking operations extending across the nation\'s eleven time zones, a senior government official said Tuesday. \"A heroin attack from the south has become the most acute problem for us,\" said Alexander Mikhailov, deputy head of Russia\'s newly-established drug control committee. In a move which highlighted the Kremlin\'s concern about the rapid spread of drugs, President Vladimir Putin set up the committee in March, naming Viktor Cherkesov, a longtime confidant and fellow KGB veteran, to head it.DOZENS KILLED IN RUSSIA BLAST
By empty (8/2/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A bomb attack on a military hospital in southern Russia has killed more than 30 people, officials have said. Eyewitnesses say a lorry packed with explosives crashed through entrance gates at the hospital, and a suicide bomber at the wheel blew himself up. The blast destroyed the four-storey building at a military base in the town of Mozdok, 10 kilometres (six miles) away from the breakaway Russian province of Chechnya.PLAGUE SOURCE REPORTED FOUND IN KAZAKHSTAN
By empty (8/5/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The recent outbreak of plague in western Kazakhstan has been traced to desert gerbils found near the village of Zhangeldi in Mangystau Oblast, the home of the three confirmed plague victims, and at desert camps not far from Aktau, the oblast administrative center. Local residents and the staff of the oil and gas companies working in the oblast are being vaccinated against the disease. Oblast health officials are reportedly trying to find out why a vaccine given to camels in Zhangeldi did not prevent one of the animals from passing the disease to the three victims.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.