News Digest
UZBEKISTAN DEPORTS JOURNALIST
By empty (8/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbek authorities on 13 August deported Igor Rotar, a correspondent for Forum 18, the Norway-based religious-freedom organization reported on its website (http://www.forum18.org) the same day.TURKMEN LEADER SACKS HEAD OF STATE OIL COMPANY
By empty (8/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Saparmurat Niyazov has signed a decree removing Saparmamed Valiev from his ministerial post as head of Turkmenneft, the state oil company, turkmenistan.ru reported on 13 August. The report stated that Valiev was removed for \"serious deficiencies in his work and abuse of office.KAZAKHSTAN BANS POULTRY SALES DUE TO BIRD FLU WORRIES
By empty (8/12/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan\'s Agriculture Ministry has banned the sale of live poultry and eggs in all regions of the country where bird flu has been discovered. Bird flu has been reported in at least four provinces, with the H5N1 strain, which has been responsible for human infections in other countries, confirmed in Pavlodar Province. Asylbek Kazhmuratov, head of the Agriculture Ministry\'s veterinary department, told a news conference in Astana on 12 August that further outbreaks of bird flu cannot be ruled out \"because the wild birds that spread the infection can settle anywhere.YUSHCHENKO ARRIVES IN TBILISI
By empty (8/12/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko arrived in Tbilisi on Friday afternoon. Yushchenko and his wife were met at the airport by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. The Ukrainian president\'s visit is unofficial, which is why there will be no press conference at the airport, a Georgian presidential administration spokesman told reporters.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.