News Digest
INCUMBENT \'WINS\' ARMENIA VOTE
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Officials in Armenia say the incumbent President, Robert Kocharyan, has won a clear victory in the second round of the presidential election. With nearly all the votes counted, Mr Kocharyan is said to have gained 67% - far ahead of his challenger, Stepan Demirchyan. But international election monitors said on Thursday there had been widespread ballot stuffing.MOSCOW THINKS IRAQ WAR IS IMMINENT
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The Emergency Situations Ministry announced on 6 March that it has brought an additional 150 Russian citizens to Moscow from Iraq and that another five flights are scheduled before 10 March that will evacuate virtually all the Russians remaining in that country. Russian oil majors Yukos, LUKoil, and Zarubezhneft have all reportedly summoned their employees home. The Emergency Situations Ministry\'s move is a sign that Moscow has few hopes that a peaceful solution to the Iraq crisis will be found, and that war appears imminent.RUSSIA, FRANCE, GERMANY VOW TO BLOCK \'MILITARY\' RESOLUTION ON IRAQ
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Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov on 5 March met in Paris with his French and German counterparts, Dominique de Villepin and Joschka Fischer, and the three men issued a joint statement pledging to block the adoption of a \"military\" UN Security Council resolution on Iraq, Western and Russian news agencies reported. The statement further asserts that, if necessary, France and Russia -- which are permanent Security Council members with veto power -- will take \"upon themselves all responsibility for preventing the approval of a resolution that will lead to war with Iraq.\" Asked whether this means using a veto if the United States, Great Britain, and Spain insist on a vote on the draft resolution that they have submitted, Ivanov said, \"Yes,\" and added that this pledge has now been committed to paper.AFGHANISTAN WANTS MORE REBUILDING FUNDS
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The Afghan Government has said it wants to raise more international funds to rebuild the country and its battered economy. The government said it had received far less money than several other countries recovering from conflict. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers said he feared the current stand-off with Iraq was distracting donors\' attention.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.