News Digest
BIRD FLU QUARANTINE LIFTED IN AZERBAIJAN
By empty (4/15/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Azeri bird flu prevention commission has announced that the situation surrounding the bird flu threat in the country has stabilized. The final quarantine has been lifted at the village of Banovshalar in the Agdam district, the commission said in a statement. The commission once again urged people to refrain from contact with wild birds, to keep poultry isolated and to strictly observe sanitary and hygienic standards.KARABAKH NOT A DRUG TRANSIT ROUTE – STEPANAKERT
By empty (4/15/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Stepanakert has criticized the naming of the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh as a territory used for illegal drug transit in a U.S. Department of State report.IRAN HAS NO CHANCE OF PRODUCING NUKES ON ITS OWN - RUSSIAN CHIEF OF STAFF
By empty (4/15/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Iran has no opportunity to develop its own nuclear weapons, said Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Yury Baluyevsky. \"I can tell you with all confidence that what Iran is doing now will not enable it to develop nuclear weapons either in the near or in the distant future,\" Baluyevsky told journalists in Moscow on Saturday.KAZAKH PRESIDENT SETS PRIORITIES FOR REGIONAL HEADS
By empty (4/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Nursultan Nazarbaev told a meeting with provincial governors and the mayors of Almaty and Astana on April 14 that the task of making Kazakhstan one of the world\'s 50 most competitive countries should become a \"national idea\" In his address, Nazarbaev singled out the following issues: the efficiency of local executive government, regional socioeconomic problems, the introduction of electronic government, encouraging a healthy lifestyle, youth unemployment, competition and the development of small and mid-size businesses, and provincial strategic-development plans. (Kazinform).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.