News Digest
EBRD DEBATING UZBEKISTAN EXIT ON WORSENING POLITICS
By empty (11/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is debating closing down all its operations in Uzbekistan because of the deteriorating political situation there, a senior bank official told Reuters on Monday. The EBRD, the development bank for the region, said earlier this year it would stop funding public sector projects in the central Asian state, citing concern about incidents in May, when Uzbek forces opened fire on demonstrators in the town of Andizhan, killing scores of people. \"For the time being, the EBRD\'s status is to invest only in the private sector in Uzbekistan,\" said Bruno Balvanera, head of business development at the EBRD.KAZAKHSTAN TO REPAY $849 MLN EARLY BY YEAR-END
By empty (11/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan will repay ahead of schedule a total of $849 million of its foreign debt by the end of this year, Finance Minister Arman Dunayev said on Monday. Dunayev told a government meeting that the early repayment would allow the Central Asian state to save $209 million in debt servicing. Dunayev also said that the early debt repayment would allow the nation\'s monetary authorities to soak up excessive money supply and keep quickening inflation in check.PROTESTS PLANNED AFTER SOLDIERS KILL THREE CHECHEN CIVILIANS
By empty (11/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Rights groups plan large-scale protests in Chechnya in response to the November 16 killing of three Chechen civilians by Russian soldiers on the outskirts of the Chechen capital Grozny, Nurdi Nukhazhiyev, head of Chechnya\'s constitutional rights defense service, said on Saturday. The late night incident occurred on Said Baduyev Street on the outskirts of the village of Staraya Sunzha. \"Persons in camouflage uniforms and masks who identified themselves as law enforcement officials arrested Yusup Usmanov, Khusain Akhmadov and Dzhambulat Dushayev and, without explanation, laid them on the ground and killed them by shooting each in the back of the head,\" the Grozny police authority told Interfax.MILITARY PROBING CHECHEN PM\'S CAR CRASH
By empty (11/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The military prosecutor\'s office of the Moscow Military District is investigating the car accident in which Chechen Prime Minister Sergei Abramov was injured, a prosecution service source said on Friday. \"The reason for this decision is the fact that the car in which Abramov was traveling was being driven by a serviceman, a member of the Federal Bodyguard Service,\" the source told Interfax. (Interfax).Visit also
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Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
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