News Digest
ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES DRAFT BUDGET FOR 2006
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The government approved on 28 September a draft budget that envisages for the first time public expenditures in excess of $1 billion, an increase of almost 20 percent over the comparable figure for 2005, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. The draft, which will be submitted to parliament next week, envisages revenues of 380.3 billion drams ($853 million) and expenditures of 450.BRITAIN MAY REVISE ITS POSITION REGARDING ZAKAYEV - RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR
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Russian Ambassador in London Yury Fedotov said that Chechen separatist emissary Akhmed Zakayev, who is currently in exile in Great Britain, may be extradited to Russia. \"We are hoping the British side may revise its position regarding the question of extraditing Chechen separatist emissary Akhmed Zakayev in the light of the July bombings in London,\" Fedotov told Interfax on Thursday. In Great Britain, \"more and more people realize that the issue of fighting terrorism cannot be approached from a position of double standards,\" Fedotov said.KYRGYZ PARLIAMENT CONFIRMS 10 OF 16 PROPOSED CABINET MEMBERS
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In a 27 September vote, Kyrgyzstan\'s parliament confirmed 10 of 16 ministers and committee heads proposed by President Kurmanbek Bakiev, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. Lawmakers voted down the candidacies of Roza Otunbaeva for foreign minister, Ishenbai Kadyrbekov for minister of transportation and communications, Toktokan Borombaeva for culture minister, and Alevtina Pronenko for labor and social security minister. Prime Minister Feliks Kulov reacted with surprise, saying, \"It\'s not clear to me why Roza Otunbaeva\'s candidacy was rejected even though she was a leader of the revolution,\" Interfax-Kazakhstan reported.CHECHEN COURT SYSTEM ALMOST RESTORED - OFFICIAL
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The Chechen court system has been practically restored, Chechen Supreme Court Chairman Ziyavdi Zaurbekov told a Thursday press conference in Moscow. \"Fourteen of the 15 district and town courts of Chechnya are already functioning. The Supreme Court and the Grozny Garrison Military Court are functioning, as well,\" he said.Visit also
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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.