News Digest
HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS SKEPTICAL ON CHECHNYA VOTE
By empty (11/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Human rights campaigners said they doubt Sunday\'s parliamentary elections in Chechnya will restore peace in the republic. \"We do not have sufficient grounds to expect the elections to lead to fundamental positive changes in Chechnya,\" Human Rights Watch Moscow office chief Alexander Petrov told Interfax on Sunday. A lack of security is one of the main problems facing the republic, he said.OVER 120 KILOS OF HEROIN SEIZED ON TAJIK-AFGHAN BORDER
By empty (11/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
More than 120 kilograms of heroin were seized on the Tajik-Afghan border near Parkhar, 250 kilometers southwest of Dushanbe, Abdulsattor Gulakhmatov, press secretary of the Tajik state border guard committee, told Interfax on Sunday. Border guards fired on a group illegally crossing the border, he said. \"One man, an Afghan citizen, was detained.AZERBAIJAN POLICE BREAK UP OPPOSITION PROTEST
By empty (11/26/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Police in Azerbaijan\'s capital used truncheons and water cannon on Saturday to break up a protest by opposition supporters complaining of fraud in an election earlier this month. A Reuters reporter at the scene said he saw dozens of protesters with blood coming from head wounds after riot police moved in to disperse a crowd of about 10,000 people in a square on the outskirts of Baku. Police said the protesters were breaking the law.NATO TRIES TO ALLAY AFGHAN SECURITY FEARS
By empty (11/25/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
NATO allies are in intensive talks to allay security concerns among nations key to a plan to expand peacekeeping in Afghanistan amid growing violence there, alliance sources said on Friday. The Netherlands, one of three nations earmarked to lead the expansion into the more dangerous southern region in the first half of next year, has raised questions over whether NATO will have sufficient forces to handle serious trouble, they said. NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is due on Monday to meet New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, who insists she will not transfer to NATO a 120-strong reconstruction team in Bamiyan province unless the alliance guarantees robust support.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.