News Digest
125 CHECHEN REFUGEES RETURN FROM GEORGIA
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A hundred and twenty-five Chechen refugees who lived in Georgia\'s Pankisi gorge over the past several years arrived in Russia on Tuesday evening, the Russian presidential Envoy in the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak told journalists. \"The refugees were taken to Makhachkala in an Emergency Situations Ministry plane. From there they were taken to Grozny in five buses.KAZAKH FOREIGN MINISTER DISPUTES OSCE ELECTION REPORT
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Addressing the annual gathering of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) foreign ministers in Ljubljana on 6 December, Kazakh Foreign Minister Qasymzhomart Toqaev disputed the organization\'s critical stance on Kazakhstan\'s 4 December presidential election. Toqaev expressed his \"decisive disagreement with the negative assessments of the political process in our country by the [OSCE\'s] Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights [ODIHR].\" \"Kazakhstan is not prepared to dramatize the ODIHR assessments, but they are, in essence, biased.KAZAKH PRESIDENT\'S DAUGHTER ADDRESSES SUCCESSION ISSUE
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Darigha Nazarbaeva, the daughter of Kazakh President Nazarbaev, told a briefing in Astana on 6 December that she does not rule out a possible presidential run in 2012. She told journalists, \"In a year or two we\'ll examine this issue.\" On the question of success, Nazarbaeva said that her father would have \"the final say\" on choosing a successor.KYRGYZ PRESIDENT REPORTEDLY REBUKED ENVOY TO U.S.
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President Kurmanbek Bakiev issued a resolution on 30 November formally rebuking Zamira Sydykova, Kyrgyzstan\'s ambassador to the United States, for statements she made about the U.S. base in Kyrgyzstan.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.