News Digest
MILITANT KILLED IN CHECHNYA
By empty (8/22/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A militant from field commander Kazbek Batalov\'s group was killed during a special operation in the village of Assinovskaya in the Sunzhen district of Chechnya. The group has been pursued in the region for several days, the district interior department told Interfax on Monday. The pursuit began after an attack on the house of the Roshni-Chu village administration chief in the Urus-Martan district, the department said.PUTIN PROMISES TO SIGN DECREE ON PARLIAMENTARY VOTE IN CHECHNYA
By empty (8/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a working meeting with Chechnya\'s President Alu Alkhanov, Prime Minister Sergei Abramov and Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov that he will sign a decree to set the parliamentary elections in the republic for November 27, 2005. The meeting took place at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Sunday. \"The political situation and social life in the republic today allows us to suggest that you set the date for the elections,\" Alkhanov said.GEORGIA LEFT WITHOUT POWER OVER BREAKDOWN ON HIGH-VOLTAGE POWER TRANSMISSION LINE
By empty (8/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Power cuts to Tbilisi and virtually to all districts in eastern Georgia were caused by a breakdown on a high-voltage power transmission line. According to preliminary data, the transmission line was snapped by gale winds, a thunderstorm and a lightning, which put out of action a section of the power transmission line. Initially, electricity was not supplied to strategic projects in Tbilisi and other cities in Eastern Georgia.UZBEK PROSECUTORS DENY SUSPECT HAS DIED UNDER TORTURE
By empty (8/20/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Uzbek Prosecutor General\'s Office on Saturday denied a report that one of the four men who fled to Kyrgyzstan after May\'s riots in the Uzbek city of Andizhan but have later come back to Uzbekistan died under torture. All four \"are charged with direct participation in the attacks on the buildings of the regional administration and law and order [agencies] and on a military base, with killing hostages and civilians, and with hijacking cars,\" Svetlana Artykova, spokeswoman for the office, told Interfax. She said the four former refugees were currently in preventive detention.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.