News Digest
IMMIGRATION FROM KYRGYZSTAN TO RUSSIA ON THE RISE - AMBASSADOR
By empty (2/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
More members of Kyrgyzstan\'s Russian- speaking community are willing to immigrate to Russia, Russian Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Yevgeny Shmagin told journalists on Wednesday. \"There was a decline in immigrant rates since 2000. But the number of people willing to move to Russia as permanent residence has risen following the events of March 2005,\" Shmagin said.TWELVE KILLED IN BLAST AT FEDERAL BASE IN CHECHNYA
By empty (2/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Twelve servicemen were killed in a blast that destroyed barracks at the base of the Vostok special task battalion in the Chechen village of Kurchaloi, a spokesman for Chechnya\'s Emergency Situations Department told Interfax. The cause of the explosion has not been established yet, but initial reports said a leakage of household gas may have caused the blast. No gas cylinders have been discovered, however.SOUTH OSSETIA COMMITTED TO BECOMING PART OF RUSSIA – KOKOITY
By empty (2/7/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
South Ossetia is committed to becoming part of Russia, said Eduard Kokoity, president of the self-proclaimed republic. \"We will seek to restore historical justice - union with North Ossetia and accession to Russia,\" Kokoity told a news conference at the Interfax Central Office in Moscow on Tuesday. Commenting on Georgia\'s intention to join NATO, he said that \"this is a right of our neighboring state, but accession will be without South Ossetia and Abkhazia.KYRGYZ PRESIDENT REBUKES BRITISH MINING COMPANY IN OPEN LETTER
By empty (2/6/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Bakiev has responded with a public rebuke to a British mining company after a private letter from British Prime Minister Tony Blair urging Kyrgyz authorities to resolve a licensing dispute, \"The Times\" reported on 3 February. Oxus Gold was stripped of its license to develop the Jerooy mine in Kyrgyzstan in 2004. Blair had written privately to Bakiev to urge a resolution of the matter, noting that Oxus raised $60 million for Jerooy and warning that the loss of its license presents \"a real danger of damage to Kyrgyzstan\'s reputation in the international financial markets,\" \"The Independent\" reported.Visit also
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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.