News Digest
UZBEK COURT SENTENCES REPORTER TO SIX MONTHS
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Nosyr Zakirov, a correspondent for RFE/RL\'s Uzbek Service, was sentenced to a six-month prison term on 26 August for slandering a state official, Interfax reported, quoting the journalist\'s son, Zokhid Zakirov. Arena, a website detailing free-speech issues in Uzbekistan (www.freeuz.ARMENIAN, AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENTS MEET
By empty (8/29/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Kocharian met on 27 August in Kazan on the sidelines of a CIS summit with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev to discuss approaches to resolving the Karabakh conflict, news agencies from both countries reported. The two presidents first met one-on-one and then were joined by the co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group but, contrary to expectations, not by Russian President Vladimir Putin. No details of the specific issues discussed were made public, but Armenian Public Television on 27 August quoted Kocharian\'s press secretary, Viktor Soghomonian, as characterizing the talks as \"a positive development in the negotiating process.TURKMENISTAN DISTANCES ITSELF FROM CIS
By empty (8/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkmenistan has downgraded the status of its membership of the CIS to that of an \"associated member,\" the press service of Turkmenistan\'s Foreign Ministry reported. The ministry stated that the participants in the CIS summit in Kazan received a message from Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov, who did not attend, \"with a request to take into account Turkmenistan\'s neutral status and support its position to participate in the CIS as an associated member.\" The report noted that the request received preliminary approval from CIS member states.TURKMEN BOOK \'BLASTED INTO SPACE\'
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Turkmenistan\'s idiosyncratic President, Saparmurat Niyazov, has found an unusual way to spread his message - by sending his writings into space. Part One of the Ruhnama was blasted off on a Russian Dnepr booster rocket from Kazakhstan\'s Baykonur launch site on Wednesday, local media said. People are obliged to read Mr Niyazov\'s book, an interpretation of Turkmen history, for moral guidance.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.
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.