News Digest
AZERBAIJANI WORKERS END STRIKE AT AMERICAN ENERGY COMPANY
By empty (2/24/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Some 1,000 striking workers at the U.S. oil-services company McDermott in Azerbaijan ended on 24 February their strike after reaching an agreement with management.PUTIN: IRAN TALKS “NOT GOING EASILY”
By empty (2/22/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Talks with Iran on a Russian proposal aimed at resolving an international crisis over Tehran\'s suspected nuclear weapons program are not going easily, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.\"The talks are not going easily but we are counting on reaching a positive result,\" Putin told journalists on a visit to Azerbaijan.The Russian leader said that the Kremlin\'s offer to enrich uranium for Tehran to avert suspicions that the Iranians could divert the nuclear fuel for atomic weapons should be \"perfectly acceptable\" to Iran and could be used as \"a means to solve the problem.GEORGIA SHOULD SOLVE OWN PROBLEMS, NOT LOOK FOR ENEMIES – PUTIN
By empty (2/22/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that the Georgian leadership should first of all concentrate on solving problems existing in the country instead of looking for new enemies. The visiting Russian leader said Russia sympathizes with the Georgian people “as Georgia is facing difficult times and immense social problems”. “If someone believes that problems of that kind could be solved by way of redirecting attention towards the search for new enemies, - this is a wrong path,” President Putin emphasized.KAZAKH OFFICERS LINKED TO MURDER
By empty (2/21/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan\'s KNB security service has said five of its officers have been arrested over the murder of opposition politician Altynbek Sarsenbaiuly. The KNB said the five were members of its elite Arystan combat division. Opposition groups have accused the government of involvement in the death of Mr Sarsenbaiuly, who was found shot dead by a roadside earlier this month.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.