News Digest
TURKMENISTAN REPORTEDLY PLANS TO EXPORT GAS TO CHINA
By empty (1/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
China and Turkmenistan are readying an agreement to build a pipeline to transport Turkmen natural gas to China. Zhang Guobao, deputy minister of China\'s National Development and Reform Commission, is due to arrive in Ashgabat on 18 January for talks to draft the agreement, which is expected to be signed when Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov visits China in April. Niyazov told a cabinet meeting on 16 January, \"Gas will be pumped to China from the right bank of the Amudarya River.KILLING NOT TO AFFECT CANADA ROLE
By empty (1/16/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Canadian government has said the killing of one of its senior diplomats in Afghanistan will not affect its commitment to rebuilding the country. Glyn Berry, political director of a reconstruction team, was killed by a suspected suicide bomber in the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday. Two Afghan civilians were also killed and 13 others, including three Canadian soldiers, were injured in the attack.‘ZAWAHIRI’ STRIKE SPARKS PROTESTS
By empty (1/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A missile strike apparently targeting al-Qaeda\'s deputy leader in a village in Pakistan has prompted Islamabad to protest to its American allies. Ayman al-Zawahiri was not in the village on the border with Afghanistan, Pakistan officials said. But the attack left at least 18 local people dead.290 MILITANTS ELIMINATED IN NORTH CAUCASUS IN 2005
By empty (1/10/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Head of the regional headquarters of the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Col. Gen. Arkady Yedelev has summed up the results of operations in 2005.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.