News Digest
CHECHEN ENVOY AND REFUGEES CLEARED FOR ENTRY TO RUSSIA
By empty (7/23/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen parliamentary deputy Magomed Khambiyev and two Chechen refugees who have returned to Russia from Azerbaijan have left the Derbent police department and proceeded to Chechnya. Following the intervention by commanders of the regional operations headquarters and of the combined force in the North Caucasus, and by Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, the two refugees, who were returning with me to Russia from Azerbaijan were cleared,\" Khambiyev told Interfax by phone on Sunday. Khambiyev said he had been entrusted \"to hold talks with representatives of the Chechen communities in Azerbaijan, Turkey and other countries, and to persuade them to come back to Russia.CIS PRESIDENT DISCUSS COMMONWEALTH REFORMS
By empty (7/22/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Presidents of CIS countries discussed the reform of the Commonwealth at their informal summit in Moscow on Saturday. After the meeting, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev told journalists, “Basing on the experts’ analysis of the 15-year-long activity of the CIS I exposed my vision and a new programme of the CIS reform.” “It is necessary to take such decisions, which will meet the interests of everyone.NO STATE IN CIS MUST FEEL ITS INTERESTS INFRINGED - NAZARBAYEV
By empty (7/22/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed to discuss ways to develop the CIS for no one state to feel its interests are infringed. Nazarbayev said he sent out the draft of the proposals for discussion through the embassies on Friday.\" I hope you received it and could look over it,\" he said.DUDAYEV\'S WIDOW LIKELY TO BE GRANTED ESTONIAN CITIZENSHIP
By empty (7/21/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Estonian Population Ministry secretariat has received an application for citizenship from Alla Dudayeva, the widow of Dzhokhar Dudayev, the former president of so- called Ichkeria. An identical application came from Alla Dudayeva\'s younger son, Tegi Dudayev, 23, the secretariat told Interfax on Friday. Aarne Veedla, an advisor to the population minister, told Interfax Thursday that the Estonian government was prepared to consider granting citizenship to Dudayeva and other family members.Visit also
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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.