News Digest
GEORGIA MAY DEMAND DAMAGE PAYMENT FROM RUSSIA
By empty (2/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia could demand $15 billion from Russia in damages it says it suffered during the standoff in Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region. \"Russia has annexed Abkhazia and South Ossetia, inflicting damage on Georgia estimated at no less than $15 billion. A parliamentary commission must be set up to gather all evidence and show them to the world,\" Shota Malashkhia, chairman of the interim parliamentary committee for the restoration of Georgia\'s territorial integrity, told the parliament on Monday.GEORGIA, ABKHAZIA AGREE ON REOPENING RAILROAD
By empty (2/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
During talks in Sukhum on 25 February, Georgian and Abkhaz government representatives reached agreement on all issues related to the resumption of rail communication between Russia and Armenia via Abkhazia\'s Black Sea coast and Georgia, Abkhaz Prime Minister Leonid Lakerbaya told Caucasus Press. Russian Railways head Vladimir Yakunin said on 25 February that a joint venture will be established to attract the investments required to finance repairs and renovation of the rail line, which has been in disuse since the outbreak of the 1992-1993 war. The cost of doing so has been estimated at between $100-150 million.PROSECUTORS SAY MURDER OF KYRGYZ WAS PROBABLY HATE CRIME
By empty (2/16/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Ethnic enmity figures among the main motives behind the murder of a female Kyrgyz citizen in St. Petersburg, officials with the city prosecutor\'s office told Interfax. \"The murder case has been handed over from a district prosecutor\'s office to the city Department for Investigating Serious Crimes,\" an official said.KAZAKHSTAN TO BEGIN OIL EXPORTS TO CHINA IN MAY
By empty (2/24/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan\'s Energy Ministry has announced that Kazakhstan will start \"full-scale oil exports\" to China through the Atasu-Alashankou pipeline in May. The pipeline, which became operational in December is designed to have an initial annual capacity of 10 million tons. Also on 24 February, Energy Minister Baktykozha Izmukhambetov told Interfax that Kazakhstan hopes to increase oil production 30 percent by 2010 in comparison with 2005 figures.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.
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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.