News Digest
COURT UPHOLDS LEGALITY OF RULES USED IN KAVKAZ CENTER CLOSURE
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The Lithuanian Constitutional Court has upheld the legality of the rules the national secret services referred to in their demand to close down the Kavkaz Center website run by Chechen separatists on Lithuanian territory, court press secretary Ramune Sakalauskaite told Interfax on Monday. \"The Lithuanian government\'s rules of control and limitations on the distribution of information through the Internet do not contradict the constitution and the media law,\" the court said. (Interfax).MEETING ON KARS - TBILISI - BAKU RAILWAY PROJECT IN ISTANBUL
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Turkish Transportation Minister Binali Yildirim met Transportation Minister Ziya Mammadov of Azerbaijan and Economics & Infrastructure Minister Irakli Chogovadze of Georgia in Istanbul on Monday to discuss Kars-Tbilisi-Baku railway project. Prior to the meeting, Yildirim told reporters, \'\'research studies about the project started last year. We will assess the project in the meeting today.ABKHAZIA, S.OSSETIA SUPPORT EACH OTHER\'S INDEPENDENCE EFFORTS - BAGAPSH
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Abkhazia and South Ossetia support each other\'s aspiration to independence, Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh told Interfax on Monday. Bagapsh said he would come to Tskhinvali on Monday to attend events marking the 15th anniversary of South Ossetia\'s independence. \"Also on Monday we\'ll sign an agreement on cooperation between the two republics,\" Bagapsh said.RUSSIAN COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT NAZARBAYEV\'S REELECTION BID
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Russian community organizations in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan said they would back incumbent Nursultan Nazarbayev in the forthcoming presidential election, slated for Dec. 4. The Russian Lad movement said in a statement Monday that it welcomes Nazarbayev\'s decision to run for an eighth seven-year term as no other figure on Kazakhstan\'s political scene enjoys as much public trust and respect.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.