News Digest
MP KILLED IN KYRGYZ JAIL UNREST
By empty (10/20/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A member of Kyrgyzstan\'s parliament and at least two others have been killed by inmates during a prison visit.Tynchbek Akmatbayev was shot dead after being taken hostage during a visit to Moldavanovka prison, about 25km (15 miles) outside the capital, Bishkek. The others who died are said to have been members of his entourage.TURKMENISTAN WANTS TO RAISE PRICE OF NATURAL GAS IT SELLS TO RUSSIA
By empty (10/20/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkmenistan wants to raise the price of the natural gas it sells to Russia, Turkmen President Sapurmurat Niyazov told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Niyazov said he wanted to raise the price per thousand cubic meters to US$50 (euro42) as of 2006, and to US$60 (euro50) per 1,000 cubic meters thereafter.Russian gas monopoly Gazprom needs long-term supplies of Turkmen gas to ensure that it can meet rising domestic and export demand in future.UZBEK \'INCITER\' SHOWN CONFESSING
By empty (10/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The court trying 15 alleged Muslim extremists for starting an uprising in Uzbekistan has been shown a video of the alleged ringleader confessing. The presiding judge said the court wanted to call Akram Yuldashev to give evidence in person. But he has had tuberculosis for the past two years and cannot leave a prison hospital in Tashkent.GEORGIAN PM FIRES FM AFTER TALKS WITH PRESIDENT, PARLIAMENT
By empty (10/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said he had decided to dismiss Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili after consultations with President Mikhail Saakashavili and parliament. “Georgia has a rather successful foreign policy. We owe it to the president, the government, the parliament, to our entire political team.Visit also
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Analysis Svante E. Cornell, "Promise and Peril in the Caucasus," AFPC Insights, March 30, 2023.
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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.