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Georgia and Russia plan Pankisi search
By empty (9/6/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A Russian Government minister said on Friday that Georgia had agreed to joint operations to search for Chechen militants in the Pankisi Gorge - but this was immediately disputed by his Georgian counterpart. Russia has been demanding access to the gorge for months, accusing Georgia of allowing rebels to take refuge there, and launch cross-border attacks. "We have agreed that personnel from the Russian Interior Ministry will be staying in Georgia and looking, jointly with our colleagues, for international terrorists," said Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov in the Azeri capital Baku.OFFICIALS REPEAT OPPOSITION TO ATTACK ON IRAQ
By empty (9/7/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
State Duma Speaker Gennadii Seleznev told journalists in Moscow that the Duma opposes any military operation against Iraq. "The United States and Great Britain do not understand that Iraq is not Afghanistan and that plans for a U.S.KYRGYZ VILLAGERS 'DETAIN' NINE POLICEMEN
By empty (9/9/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Residents of the village of Kara-Suu in Djalalabad Oblast on 6 September detained nine policemen in an attempt to force the authorities to release seven people taken into custody in connection with a protest meeting in Kerben in June, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. On 7 September, several hundred people demonstrated in Kara-Suu to demand the release of the seven detainees. Meanwhile, some 400 people left Tash-Komur on 6 September on a protest march to Bishkek, and reached Razan-Sai the following day.KYRGYZ CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL ELECTS OPPOSITION FIGURE AS CO-CHAIRMAN
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Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan Chairman Absamat Masaliev was elected the third deputy chairman of the Constitutional Council at that body's 7 September session, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Two further opposition parliament deputies, Ismail Isakov and Alisher Abdimomunov, were co-opted as council members the same day, raising the total number from 40 to 42. At its 7 September session, the council discussed at length the optimum distribution of powers between the president and parliament and the procedure for proposing, appointing, and dismissing the prime minister, state secretary, and prosecutor-general, as well as Central Election Commission (CEC) and Audit Chamber chairmen.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.