News Digest
KAZAKH ELECTION SET FOR DECEMBER
By empty (8/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan\'s constitutional court has decided that the country\'s presidential election should be held this December. The opposition had campaigned for a December poll, while some government officials had argued that it should be held towards the end of next year. President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been in power for more than 15 years, has already said he will stand again.CHECHEN MINISTER\'S HOUSE BLOWN UP
By empty (8/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An explosion ripped through the house of Chechen Housing and Utilities Sector Minister Abu Sugaipov in the village of Avtury in the republic\'s Shali district on Friday. Six people, among them small children, were injured, district administration deputy chief Ramzan Tasukhanov told Interfax. \"Law enforcement agencies have come to the conclusion that unidentified individuals planted a powerful explosive device on the roof or in the attic.VILLAGERS WANT ETHNIC CHECHENS EVICTED OVER ETHNIC CLASHES
By empty (8/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Villagers demanded at a meeting on Friday that ethnic Chechens who were found responsible for the clashes with ethnic Kalmyks in the village of Yandyki in the Russian region of Astrakhan be evicted from Yandyki, regional governor Konstantin Markelov said. But \"we will act strictly within the limits of the law\" as regards possible evictions, Markelov told Interfax. Markelov said that grievances against local police were also voiced at the meeting, which brought together residents of Yandyki, as well as those of three nearby villages and the town of Lagani, in the neighboring Russian region of Kalmykia.CHECHEN GUERRILLA LEADER KILLED BY POLICE
By empty (8/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazbek Batalov, leader of a Chechen separatist guerrilla group of up to 30 people, has been killed in a police operation \"to blockade and liquidate a group of bandits,\" the police chief of Chechnya\'s Sunzha district said on Thursday, citing \"updated information.\" (Interfax).Visit also
Staff Publications
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Analysis Mamuka Tsereteli, "U.S. Black Sea Strategy: The Georgian Connection", CEPA, February 9, 2024.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, Stepping up to the “Agency Challenge”: Central Asian Diplomacy in a Time of Troubles, July 2023.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.