News Digest
TEHRAN HOPES NUCLEAR DIALOGUE WITH MOSCOW CONTINUES – MINISTER
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called on Iran to help the resumption of the negotiation process over its nuclear issue. “Russia hopes that Iran will choose a position that will allow reversing the acuity of the nuclear problem and resuming the negotiation process,” he said at his talks with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari in Moscow on Monday. Lavrov said that it was planned to discuss at the meeting the “nuclear problem of Iran, the situation around which is exacerbating”.TBILISI\'S ATTITUDE TO RUSSIA GUIDED BY REALITY – MINISTER
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Georgia\'s attitude to Russia is guided by reality, Georgian Defense Minister Irakly Okruashvili said. \"Russia has increased natural gas prices, blown up pipelines and arranged acts of sabotage and that is why our attitude to Russia will be based on reality,\" Okruashvili told journalists in Gudauri where meetings between embassy representatives of NATO member states and the Georgian Defense Ministry are taking place. Georgia will inform foreign diplomats about reforms in the defense sector at the meeting.GAS EXPLOSIONS DISTRACTING FROM REAL PROBLEMS IN GEORGIA - GEORGIAN CHARITY
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The Georgian authorities are using the situation surrounding gas and electricity deliveries from Russia to distract attention from other problems affecting the country, chairman of the Igor Georgadze charity foundation in Georgia Irina Sarishvili- Chanturiya said. \"The events are profitable to for the Georgian authorities who are using the explosions to distract attention away from the real problems facing the country,\" she told Interfax on Monday. \"Armenia, which has also suffered from these explosions, has not echoed the comments of the Georgian authorities,\" she said.RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY STATEMENT UNACCEPTABLE - GEORGIAN SPEAKER
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A Sunday statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry commenting on the interrupted gas and power supplies to Georgia has been strongly criticized by Georgian Speaker Nino Burjanadze. The Georgian authorities are indignant at the ministry statement, Burjanadze said. \"The Russian Foreign Ministry\'s use of such words as hysteria and bacchanalia is outrageous, especially if they are applied to pronouncements by the president of a sovereign state,\" the speaker said on the Ekho Moskvy radio on Sunday.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.