News Digest
LDPR LEADER SAYS RUSSIA SHOULD GET PAID FOR SUPPORTING STRIKE ON IRAQ.
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Deputy State Duma Speaker and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) Vladimir Zhirinovskii has said that Moscow should support a U.S. military strike against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein if Washington promises Russia financial and political benefits in exchange, newsru.UN WARNING ON AFGHAN POPPY TRADE
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Afghanistan remains the world\'s largest producer of opium despite efforts to tackle the problem by the Afghan government and the international authorities, the UN drugs agency says. A new survey by the Vienna-based United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, says dismantling the Afghan opium economy will be a long and complex process. Afghanistan produced almost three quarters of the world\'s opium in 2002, the report says.TRADE AND BUSINESS COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN KAZAKHSTAN AND AFGHANISTAN AND OTHER TREATIES TO BE SIGNED DURING VISIT OF AFGH
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During the upcoming visit of the Afghan President Hamid Karzai to Kazakhstan the sides the parties will conclude a trade and business cooperation agreement and sign a treaty outlining the fundamental principles of the two countries\' cooperation, which were suggested by Kazakhstan.\" Karzai received an official invitation to visit Kazakhstan from the country\'s Foreign Minister Kasymzhomart Tokayev during a meeting in New York in September 2002, Interfax. reports.KYRGYZSTAN VOTE BACKS PRESIDENT
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Preliminary results of a controversial referendum in Kyrygzstan show President Askar Akayev has won sweeping approval for constitutional reform and support for his continued stay in office. The Kyrgyz Central Election Committee said 77% of voters approved the president remaining until the end of his term in 2005, along with constitutional change. The Election Committee said the turnout was just over 86%.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.