News Digest
RUSSIA ALLOWS GEORGIA TO INSPECT ITS MILITARY BASE
By empty (7/23/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russia has no objection to an inspection of its Gudauta military base in Georgia, said Alexander Yakovenko, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Speaking about the Georgian Parliament’s appeal to Russia to agree to the inspection of the military base, he said: ⌠It is difficult to explain the motives of this appeal. Perhaps, Georgian parliamentarians have not been properly informed on the issue.SEX-EDUCATION BOOK WITHDRAWN FROM KYRGYZ SCHOOLS; AUTHOR SUED
By empty (7/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The sex-education textbook that has been in use in Kyrgyz schools for several years has been withdrawn and its author is being sued in a Bishkek court by a group called the Public Committee for Defense of the Honor and Dignity of the Kyrgyz People. The suit was filed on 22 July against author Boris Shapiro, head of the national AIDS center and president of the Jewish Culture Society; two of his co-authors, Gulnara Kurmanova and Larisa Bashmakova; and the publishing house that produced the book. According to the plaintiff, who is demanding \"compensation\" of $1 million, the book violates the mentality, traditions, and customs of the Kyrgyz people.INTERNATIONAL MILITARY EXERCISES END IN KAZAKHSTAN
By empty (7/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Military exercises involving Kazakh, British, and U.S. troops ended in Almaty Oblast on 24 July, khabar.OSCE MINORITIES OFFICIAL INVESTIGATES ETHNIC RELATIONS IN TAJIKISTAN
By empty (7/25/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
During a visit to Tajikistan on 22-24 July, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Rolf Ekeus met with senior government officials including President Imomali Rakhmonov, Tajik parliament upper house Chairman Makhmadsaid Ubaidulloev, and Education Minister Safarali Radzhabov, as well as with representatives of the country\'s national minorities and nongovernmental organizations, to assess the state of interethnic relations in the country. In accord with his office\'s mandate, Ekeus focused particularly on the availability of education for minorities, the use of minority languages, and the opportunities for non-Tajiks to participate in the country\'s political life. Rakhmonov sought to convince Ekeus that Tajikistan has made great progress in integrating ethnic minorities.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.