News Digest
ARREST PROMPTS NEW AZERBAIJANI PROTESTS
By empty (9/20/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The arrest of a town councillor in the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan has provoked a major protest calling for his release. Chanting slogans and waving banners about 1,000 people in the town of Nardaran demanded the release of Cabrail Alizade, a town councillor who was arrested on Friday morning. Demonstrations have taken place almost every week in this small town near the capital Baku since June when police arrested eight residents accused of trying to oust local authorities.Russia evasive over Iraq resolution
By empty (9/20/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
US President George W Bush's attempts to win Russia's support for possible military action against Iraq appear so far to have made little headway. After a meeting at the White House, Russia's foreign and defence ministers gave no indication that Mr Bush had persuaded them to change their minds and back a new United Nations Security Council resolution on Iraq. Mr Bush is pressing for an urgent resolution setting a deadline for Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to meet UN demands or face military force.DEATH TOLL FROM GLACIER SLIDE IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA
By empty (9/23/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Seventeen people have been officially declared dead, while at least 95 remain missing following a glacier avalanche in North Ossetia on 20 September, according to the head of the republic's government Mikhail Shatalov. An Interior Ministry official noted that it will be difficult to determine the exact number of victims since a large number of them are refugees from South Ossetia and other parts of Georgia who as a rule do not register their place of residence. In an interview with the agency, Shatalov ruled out the possibility that the avalanche had been triggered by terrorists.Georgia invites Russian military observers
By empty (9/23/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Georgian president, Eduard Shevardnadze, has invited Russia to send unarmed military observers to monitor special operations against Chechen rebels in the Pankisi Gorge region. Mr Shevardnadze said Georgian law enforcement agencies were clearing the gorge of what he called criminal elements and gunmen. He said Russian observers would be able to familiarise themselves with the results of the operation.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.