News Digest
INGUSHETIAN PRESIDENT\'S SECURITY CHIEF SHOT AT IN NAZRAN
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The Ingush president\'s security chief has come under armed attack in Nazran. \"At approximately 2 p.m.GEORGIA INTERESTED IN NORMALIZING RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA – ZOURABICHVILI
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Georgian Foreign Minister Salome Zourabichvili said her country is interested in bringing relations with Russia back to normal. \"Both parties applaud the progress they have made regarding the withdrawal of Russia\'s military bases from Georgia, but further steps need to be taken,\" she said. \"Relations with Russia should be normalized in fact, not only in words.KYRGYZ NATIONAL BANK HEAD PLACED UNDER HOUSE ARREST
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Kyrgyz National Bank Chairman Ulan Sarbanov has been placed under house arrest. \"The Prosecutor General\'s Office issued a decree regarding National Bank head Ulan Sarbanov on September 2,\" Prosecutor General\'s Office spokesman Sumar Nasiza told Interfax on Friday. \"This decision was made as part of the criminal case opened to look into steps by the National Bank head to hand over more than $400,000 to Kyrgyzstan\'s ex-president Askar Akayev in 1999,\" he said.SUSPECTED INGUSH PM ATTACKER KILLED
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A guerrilla leader, suspected of helping to organize recent assassination attempts on Ingushetia\'s Prime Minister Ibragim Malsagov and Nazran police chief Col. Dzhabrail Kostoyev, was killed in a sweep operation on Friday, sources in the republic\'s Federal Security Service branch told Interfax. \"It was established early Friday morning that Mirzoyev was hiding in one of the houses in the village of Karabulak, he was given an opportunity to surrender, but started shooting.Visit also
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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.
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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.