News Digest
SOME 1,000 MILITANTS ACTIVE IN CHECHNYA - OFFICIAL
By empty (8/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Up to 1,000 militants are currently operating in Chechnya, head of the Chechen State Council Taus Jabrailov said at a Monday news conference at the Interfax central office. \"They number about 1,000,\" he said responding to a question from reporters. There are 100 to 150 foreign mercenaries in Chechnya, he added.GEORGIA CONDEMNS PLANNED ABKHAZ WAR GAMES
By empty (8/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian Minister for Conflict Resolution Giorgi Khaindrava condemned the military maneuvers that commenced in Abkhazia\'s Ochamchira Raion on 15 August as a gross violation of existing agreements, and he appealed to the Russian peacekeeping force deployed in the conflict zone to intervene to stop them. Some 6,000 army, navy, and air-force personnel and reservists are taking part in the exercises, which according to Republic of Abkhazia Defense Minister Lieutenant General Sultan Sosnaliev are intended to demonstrate how prepared the unrecognized republic is to repel any aggression. In an interview in the June, No.TURKISH NATIONAL RESEARCHING GENOCIDE PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN ARMENIAN SMUGGLING CASE
By empty (8/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkish scholar Yektan Turkyilmaz told a Yerevan district court on 12 August that he did not deliberately try to smuggle valuable antique books out of Armenia, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. Turkyilmaz, who spent two months in Armenia earlier this summer conducting research into the 1915 genocide, was apprehended on 17 June at Yerevan\'s Zvartnots Airport. He had 89 rare books, some dating from the 17th century, in his luggage when he was detained.KULOV APPOINTED ACTING KYRGYZ PM
By empty (8/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Felix Kulov has been appointed acting prime minister of Kyrgyzstan, the presidential press service told Interfax on Monday. \"On August 15 President Kurmanbek Bakiyev entrusted Felix Kulov with the duties of prime minister. This decree came into force with immediate effect,\" the press service said.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.