News Digest
UAE PRESIDENT TO VISIT TURKMENISTAN IN 2006
By empty (8/31/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turmken President Saparmurad Niyazov and President of the United Arab Emirates Khalifa bin Zayid Al Nuhayyam\'s envoy Sultan Khalfan Al Ketbi have reached an agreement allowing for a visit by the UAE president to Ashgabat in early 2006, the Turkmen presidential press service told Interfax. (Interfax).CHECHNYA EXPECTS FAIR VERDICT ON ULMAN - ALKHANOV
By empty (8/30/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen President Alu Alkhanov welcomed the decision by the Russian Supreme Court\'s Military board reversing the not-guilty verdict handed to Captain Eduard Ulman and his group. \"We hoped that there are people in the judicial system who will objectively evaluate the actions of Ulman and his accomplices and arrive at a just ruling on his case,\" Alkhanov told Interfax on Tuesday. Now everything depends on how the Military Tribunal of the North Caucasian military district will approach the new investigation and make a new decision on this case, he said.GEORGIA PLANS CENSUS OF CHECHEN REFUGEES IN PANKISI GORGE
By empty (8/30/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Georgian Refugee Ministry will carry out a two-week census of Chechen refugees living in the country\'s Pankisi Gorge. Last year\'s registration showed that the area was home to 3,843 refugees from Chechnya. Nearly 1,300 of them have left Georgia mainly for third countries over the past year.AFGHAN OPIUM PRODUCTION \'DROPS\'
By empty (8/29/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Afghanistan has registered a drop in the cultivation of opium for the first time since the fall of the Taleban, the United Nations says. The area under cultivation for opium has dropped by 21%, says the head of the UN Office for Drugs and Crime. But the actual output has not changed much and Afghanistan is still the largest producer of opium in the world, accounting for almost 90% of supplies.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.