News Digest
CHECHENS BLOCK HIGHWAY TO PROTEST ABDUCTION OF TEENAGE GIRL
By empty (8/5/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Residents of the village of Samashki blocked the main highway linking Chechnya and neighboring Ingushetia on 5 August to protest the Chechen Interior Ministry\'s failure to locate and free Elza Katsaeva, who was forcibly abducted from her home in Samashki on 2 August. Abdul-Khakim Sultygov, who is President Putin\'s commissioner for human rights in Chechnya, said finding Katsaeva is \"a challenge\" for the Chechen police force and that \"the criminals involved in the abduction should be found and put on trial.\" (Interfax).AZERI LEADER\'S SON CHOSEN AS PM
By empty (8/4/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Parliament in the oil-rich ex-Soviet republic of Azerbaijan has elected the son of ailing President Heydar Aliyev, Ilham, as prime minister. The move appears designed to cement the first dynastic succession in the former Soviet Union, as the 80-year-old president puts his son in line to take over if he becomes incapacitated. Heydar Aliyev, a former KGB officer and Politburo member who has run Azerbaijan for much of the past 35 years, has been in hospital in Turkey for much of the past month with heart problems.PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA MIGHT JOIN ISLAMIC CONFERENCE
By empty (8/5/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Concluding a two-day visit to Malaysia on 5 August, President Vladimir Putin made the surprise announcement that Russia is considering joining the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Putin noted that Russia has more than 20 million Muslims, more than many OIC members, including Malaysia. On 5 August, Council of Russian Muftis Chairman Ravil Gainutdin wholeheartedly endorsed Putin\'s proposal.MOSCOW WELCOMES ILHAM ALIYEV\'S APPOINTEMENT AS AZERI PRIME MINISTER
By empty (8/7/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
As it was reported to RIA \"Novosti\" at the Russian MFA press service, Moscow believes the appointment of Ilham Aliyev the Azeri prime minister to contribute to the consolidation of the State system of the country. In his telegram of congratulation to Ilham Aliyev Russian prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov underscores that \"the worked out potential of strategic cooperation between the two countries will receive further development for consolidation of friendship between the both peoples, peace and stability in the South Caucasus\". Let us remind that August 4, basing on the corresponding items of the constitution, Azeri Milli Mejlis adopted the resolution to confirm the acting president\'s son to the post of the prime minister of the republic.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.