News Digest
FORMER KYRGYZ PARLIAMENT SPEAKER SAYS \'TANDEM\' HAS OUTLIVED ITS USEFULNESS
By empty (5/24/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Former parliament speaker Omurbek Tekebaev said on May 23 that the \"tandem\" of President Kurmanbek Bakiev and Prime Minister Feliks Kulov has \"outlived its usefulness.\" Tekebaev said, \"The tandem, which was created for purposes of stabilization and the development of society, has not justified itself and has outlived its usefulness. That\'s why the country now faces the critical issue of clearly delineating the functions and duties of all branches of government.TALKS ONLY WAY TO SOLVE IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROBLEM – LAVROV
By empty (5/23/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Talks are the only possible way to solve the Iranian nuclear problem, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. \"Russia, China and the United States, jointly with the European Troika, have been working on proposals that would lead to a political, diplomatic way out of the situation surrounding the Iranian nuclear program. Qatar, I know, supports these efforts,\" Lavrov said at a news conference in Doha on Tuesday.ISOLATING IRAN WILL NULLIFY EFFORTS TO RESOLVE CRISIS – LAVROV
By empty (5/23/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The efforts deployed by the European Union Troika, Russia, the U.S. and China to settle the Iran nuclear problem will come to naught if Iran is isolated, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.TWO GEORGIAN CRIMINALS KILLED IN ATTACK ON OSSETIAN FAMILY
By empty (5/21/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An Ossetian family was attacked in the village of Khelchua in South Ossetia overnight. Two criminals were killed in the incident. \"The two attackers, both of them Georgian citizens and residents of the neighboring village of Mereti, have a previous criminal record,\" Gela Zoziashvili, the Georgian president\'s deputy envoy in the Shida Kartli region, told Interfax on Sunday.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.