News Digest
US SOLDIER GUILTY OF AFGHAN ABUSE
By empty (1/30/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A US soldier has been found guilty by a court martial in Kabul of assaulting prisoners in an American military base in Afghanistan\'s Uruzgan province. Sgt Kevin D Myricks was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to maltreat and two counts of maltreatment, a US military statement said. Myricks has been reduced in rank and sentenced to six months\' detention.GAS SUPPLIES TO RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN TBILISI TO BE CUT OFF
By empty (1/28/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava has given orders to cut gas supplies to the Russian embassy in Georgia and the Gazexport office. \"I believe it is more important to heat at least two apartment buildings with gas than organizations that have been playing an immediate role in the energy blockade of Georgia and have alternative heating sources,\" Ugulava told journalists on Saturday. \"Gas supplies will be restored to these organizations simultaneously with other institutions, without any privileges being conferred,\" he said.TBILISI EXPERIENCING ELECTRICITY, GAS CUTS
By empty (1/27/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Gas and electricity cuts continue to plague life in Tbilisi, where several heavily populated neighborhoods have also been left without drinking water due to the power cuts. Traffic in the Georgian capital has been unusually light in recent days, public transport has virtually ground to a halt and streets all over the city are buried in snow. The local administration said on Thursday that kerosene would be sold at three locations in Tbilisi at a quarter its market price.GEORGIA IS IN ENERGY BLOCKADE - GEORGIAN PREMIER
By empty (1/26/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia is in fact facing an energy blockade, Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said. \"Mainly this deals with the sabotage at a cross-country gas pipeline and the suspiciously long time the repair work on Russian territory is taking,\" Nogaideli said at a briefing on Thursday. The Georgian government takes all measures to stabilize the situation: in particular, it is planned to increase electrical energy deliveries to Georgia from Armenia and Azerbaijan, he said.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.