News Digest
NO ETHNIC ENMITY SEEN BEHIND ATTACK ON KABARDINO-BALKARIA MINISTER – PROSECUTORS
By empty (4/2/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Moscow prosecutors have given their go-ahead to a criminal investigation into an attack on Kabardino- Balkaria Culture Minister Zaur Tutov under charges of inflicting bodily injuries. \"Nothing suggests thus far that the attack was motivated by ethnic enmity, but all theories will be checked,\" an official with Moscow\'s Eastern District Prosecutor\'s Office told Interfax. Tutov was beaten up by unidentified attackers following an impulsive argument.KAZAKHS PONDERING “DESERT VEGAS”
By empty (4/2/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Authorities in Kazakhstan say they are talking with investors about building a gambling and entertainment complex near the commercial capital, Almaty. President Nursultan Nazarbayev said he had long thought of building a sort of Las Vegas on the vast empty steppe outside the city. Officials say a new complex would help to control the growth of casinos and gambling in Almaty itself.GEORGIA CHARGES SOUTH OSSETIAN LEADER\'S ENVOY WITH SMUGGLING
By empty (4/1/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian police have arrested an envoy of the president of the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia on suspicion of smuggling cigarettes into Georgia, the Georgian Interior Ministry said. Vazha Khachapuridze, who may face a prison term of up to five years if proved guilty, was arrested near the village of Ergneti after more than 1,500 cigarette packets with Russian excise stamps were found in his car, the ministry told Interfax. He was taken to a police station in the Shida-Kartli district.ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN EXCHANGE ACCUSATIONS OVER CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS
By empty (3/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An Azerbaijani servicemen was killed on March 30 when Armenian forces opened fire near the village of Alibeyli in Tovuz district; he was the sixth serviceman to die from enemy fire this month, zerkalo.az reported on March 31 quoting the press service of the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry. The Armenian and Azerbaijani defense ministries have each blamed the opposing side for opening fire on March 29 and preventing a routine monitoring by the OSCE of the Line of Contact separating the two sides, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported.Visit also
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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.