News Digest
GEORGIAN PRESIDENT MEETS WITH AMBASSADORS
By empty (2/1/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Mikheil Saakashvili met on 1 February in Berlin with Georgia\'s ambassadors to 20 European countries. He warned them that Georgia faces a \"strong, experienced and wealthy\" opponent, meaning Russia, that \"regards a united Georgia as a threat and does its best to prevent Georgia from becoming stronger.\" Saakashvili encouraged the ambassadors to do more to secure European support for Georgia\'s strategic goals of integration with NATO and the EU.RUSSIA DOES NOT NEED ANOTHER AFGHANISTAN IN CENTRAL ASIA
By empty (1/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia does not want to see a second Afghanistan in Central Asia and the region should follow an evolutionary path of development, and not a revolutionary one. “We do not want to have another Afghanistan in Central Asia, there should be no revolutions, but evolution that would bring about the establishment of democratic governments,” Putin said about the situation in Uzbekistan. “We know what happened in Andijan, who fomented tensions in that city and how.COUNTER-TERRORIST OPERATION IN CHECHNYA ALMOST COMPLETE – PUTIN
By empty (1/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Counter-terrorist operations in Chechnya have almost been completed, President Vladimir Putin said. \"I believe we can speak of the completion of the counter-terrorist operation with the understanding that Chechen law enforcement agencies are assuming the bulk of the responsibility for the state of law and order,\" he told a Tuesday news conference in the Kremlin. \"All necessary government bodies have been set up in Chechnya.SOUTH OSSETIA BLAMES KILLING ON GEORGIANS
By empty (1/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Foreign Ministry of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia issued a statement on 31 January implicating Georgia in the recent murder of a local resident. South Ossetian members of the Joint Control Commission tasked with monitoring the situation in the South Ossetian conflict zone issued an analogous condemnation the same day. The Ossetian side claims the dead man was abducted on 26 January in the Georgian village of Kekhvi, close to a Georgian police post, brutally beaten, and then publicly executed.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.