News Digest
NO CHANGES TO PEACEKEEPING MEMBERS WITHOUT ABKHAZ CONSENT - BAGAPSH
By empty (9/30/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Abkhazia does not want to change the participants in the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict settlement process, President of the self-proclaimed republic Sergei Bagapsh said. \"The peacekeeping forces were deployed in the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict zone in accordance with a ceasefire and a separation agreement signed by Georgia and Abkhazia on May 14, 1994,\" Bagapsh said. \"Abkhazia does not want to introduce any changes to the document and without our consent it is impossible to introduce any new states to the peacekeeping process,\" the Abkhaz President\'s press service cites Bagapsh as saying.KAZAKH ELECTORAL OFFICIALS CERTIFY 11 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
By empty (9/30/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Kazakh Central Election Commission issued a ruling on 30 September certifying the eligibility of 11 presidential candidates. The ruling verifies that the 11 candidates have met all of the commission\'s requirements, including the state Kazakh-language test, for the 4 December presidential election. The most prominent of these candidates include incumbent President Nursultan Nazarbaev; Zharmakhan Tuyakbai, the leader of the opposition \"For a Just Kazakhstan\" bloc; parliamentarians Ualikhan Kaisarov and Erasyl Abylkasymov; businessman Salim Oten; lawyer Mekemtas Tleulesov; and Alikhan Baimenov, the leader of the Ak Zhol party.KYRGYZSTAN VIEWS RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA AS PRIORITY - KULOV
By empty (9/30/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan views relations with Russia as a priority, said Kyrgyz Prime Minister Felix Kulov. \"We consider Russia to be a priority in our foreign political relations,\" Kulov said at a press conference at the Interfax main office on Friday. Kulov, who is on a working visit to Russia, has had meetings with his Russian counterpart Mikhail Fradkov and members of the Russian business community.UZBEKS HELD IN RUSSIAN JAIL FOR ANDIJON EVENTS GO ON HUNGER STRIKE
By empty (9/30/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Twelve citizens of Uzbekistan, one from Kyrgyzstan, and one from Russia, who are being held in a pretrial-detention center in Ivanovo, have declared a hunger strike. The Uzbeks were arrested in June on suspicion of taking part in the mid-May violence in the Uzbek city of Andijon. In an interview with Ekho Moskvy on 29 September, Vitalii Ponomarev of Memorial said that only one of those in custody was even in Andijon at the time and this was because he was required to go back to have his passport changed after his 45th birthday.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.