News Digest
TWO POLICEMEN KILLED IN GROZNY
By empty (9/17/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Two policemen from the Russian internal republic of Chuvashia, including the deputy commander of a combined police unit from that region, were killed in the Leninsky district of Chechnya\'s capital of Grozny. \"A group of armed men fired automatic weapons at an UAZ jeep on Sadovaya Street. The car\'s driver and deputy commander of the Chuvash police unit Maj.WORLD BANK EXTENDS NEW CREDIT TO GEORGIA
By empty (9/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The World Bank announced on 15 September that it has decided to extend a new $13.5 million grant to support Georgia\'s poverty reduction program. The World Bank statement added that the country\'s poverty reduction effort will focus on \"strengthening public-sector accountability, efficiency, and transparency; improve electricity and gas sector services; improve the environment for private sector development; and improve social protection, education, and health care services.PROTESTORS SEIZE LAND IN KYRGYZ CAPITAL
By empty (9/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Seven hundred protestors seized 36 hectares (89 acres) of land in southern Bishkek on 15 September, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. A spokesperson for the group said that Kyrgyz officials had promised them plots of land in the spring but have since failed to keep their word. The protestors claimed to have documents proving their right to the plots.ANDIJAN REFUGEES GRANTED ASYLUM
By empty (9/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The UN has evacuated a group of 11 Uzbek refugees from the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan. The 11 fled to Kyrgyzstan after what eyewitnesses and human rights groups say was a massacre of civilians in the Uzbek town of Andijan in May The Uzbek government says the events in Andijan were an attempt to overthrow the government. It has accused the UN of violating the 1951 Geneva Convention on refugees by evacuating the 11 unilaterally.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.