News Digest
CIS LEADERS WANT KAZAKHSTAN TO HEAD OSCE IN 2009
By empty (8/26/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A Commonwealth of Independent States summit on Friday expressed support for Kazakhstan\'s candidacy for the 2009 chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the summit, held in Kazan, Russia. (Interfax).TURKMEN LEADER BANS RECORDED MUSIC AT EVENTS, ON TV
By empty (8/23/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov has banned the playing of recorded music at public events, on television and at weddings in a bid to fend off foreign influences. A decree signed by Niyazov and published in newspapers \"bans the use in Turkmenistan of sound recordings..FORMER KYRGYZ PRESIDENT\'S SON-IN-LAW FACES CRIMINAL CHARGES
By empty (8/22/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Kyrgyz Prosecutor-General\'s Office announced on 19 August that it has charged Adil Toigonboev, the son-in-law of former Kyrgyz President Askar Akaev, with fraud, embezzlement, and tax evasion, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. An arrest warrant has been issued and Toigonboev is currently being sought in connection with the charges. Prosecutors said that in one episode, Toigonbaev hid $16 million in profits from Aalam Service, a service company that supplied the U.KYRGYZ PROSECUTORS TAKE TESTIMONY FROM FORMER PREMIER
By empty (8/22/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Former Kyrgyz Prime Minister Nikolai Tanaev arrived in Bishkek on 22 August and met with Prosecutor-General Azimbek Beknazarov. Tanaev, who faces three criminal cases in Kyrgyzstan, went free after his testimony; prosecutors had initially wanted to arrest him, but after he voluntarily appeared to present testimony they agreed to release him on his own recognizance after he signed a statement that he will not leave the country. Maksim Maksimovich, the lawyer representing Tanaev, told reporters that his client met with Prosecutor-General Beknazarov for two and a half hours in the morning.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.