News Digest
AZERBAIJANI JOURNALISTS TEMPORARILY DETAINED
By empty (7/28/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Police in Baku detained the editors of several leading newspapers, news agencies, and journalism organizations on 26 July in what Press Club Chairman Aflatun Amashev termed \"an act of psychological terrorism,\" and then released them 90 minutes later, Turan and Interfax reported. Police cited no reason for the detentions, in which the journalists\' cars were flagged down and they were reportedly brutally manhandled. Meeting later the same day, the Editors\' Council decided to request a formal meeting with Interior Minister Ramil Usubov and Prosecutor-General Zakir Garalov to discuss the incident.MORE CANDIDATES PLAN TO RUN FOR CHECHEN PRESIDENCY
By empty (7/28/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Hussein Dzhabrailov, deputy director of Moscow\'s Rossiya Hotel, told ITAR-TASS on 25 July he will \"soon\" officially inform the Chechen Central Election Commission of his intention to contest the 5 October presidential ballot. He argued that the standoff between Chechnya and the federal center should be resolved exclusively by political means, through the consolidation of Chechen society. Four other prospective candidates have announced their own presidential bids: Said-Khamzat Gairbekov, retired officer Zaindi Mavlatov, Moscow-based businessman Malik Saidullaev, and Grozny university professor Avkhad Khachukaev.DOCUMENTS ON COMMON ECONOMIC SPACE TO BE AVAILABLE BY SEPTEMBER
By empty (7/28/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko said that experts are expected to finish drafting all documents on the establishment of a common economic space in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine by the CIS summit in September. \"There are still a lot of different opinions, approaches and disagreement. But everyone today has a similar vision of the structure of this single economic space,\" Khristenko said at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Friday.KYRGYZSTAN\'S UIGHURS HOLD CONGRESS
By empty (7/29/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The fifth congress of Kyrgyzstan\'s Uighurs was held on 28 July, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported the same day. A total of 350 delegates from around the country gathered in Bishkek to hear a report by the chairman of the Uighur Society, Ittipak Rozmukhambet Abdulbakiev, who was re-elected at the congress. Abdulbakiev noted that recent assertions in the Kyrgyz media that Uighurs have been involved in criminal activities connected with separatists who want to set up an independent Uighur state in China\'s Xinjiang Province have harmed the Uighur community in Kyrgyzstan.Visit also
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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.