News Digest
TURKMENISTAN IS LAYING SECOND BRIDGE TO AFGHANISTAN
By empty (6/16/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkmen specialists completed construction of 50th kilometers part of high-voltage power transmission lines PTL-220 Serkhetabad (former Kushka) ã Great (Afghanistan) with total length at 120 kilometers. Ashkhabadfs correspondent of Turkmenistan.ru reports that 100 km of this energy bridge passes via the territory of Afghanistan.DEAL TO RETURN AFGHAN REFUGEES
By empty (6/16/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The UN refugee agency and the governments of Iran and Afghanistan have signed an agreement to help repatriate Afghan refugees in Iran over the next two years. The deal allows for the gradual return of some one million Afghans still living in Iran after fleeing fighting in their own country. Afghanistan is keen to control the numbers of those who return to avoid putting too much pressure on its fragile economy.WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS HIGHLY ESTIMATES KAZAKHSTAN
By empty (6/17/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) highly estimates the role of Kazakhstan and, in particular, of the head of state, \"in the issues of friendship, good relations and neighbours of Kazakhstan\", Israel Zinger, chairman of WJC, said on 17 June in Astana after his meeting with the president of RK Nursultan Nazarbayev. I. Zinger especially noted N.UZBEK OPPOSITION PARTY HOLDS CONGRESS IN TASHKENT
By empty (6/15/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The unregistered Uzbek opposition party Erk held its first congress in 10 years in Tashkent on 14 June. Erk, the first opposition political party registered after Uzbekistan became independent, lost its registration, as did the Birlik Movement from which Erk originated, in 1993. Since then, its members have frequently been harassed by the authorities.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.