News Digest
AKAYEV LIKELY TO BECOME MOSCOW UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
By empty (8/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan\'s former president Askar Akayev has been offered teaching and research work at the Moscow State University. University Rector Viktor Sadovnichy has proposed that Akayev give lectures to post-graduates and doctors of the Systems Mathematics Institute which Sadovnichy heads, a source in the University management told Interfax. \"Akayev agreed and we expect him to begin work in September,\" the source said.UZBEK FOREIGN MINISTRY BLASTS REFUGEE EVACUATION
By empty (8/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In an official statement on 1 August, Uzbekistan\'s Foreign Ministry harshly criticized the recent evacuation of 339 Uzbek refugees from Kyrgyzstan to Romania as a \"violation of all procedures and norms of international law and UN resolutions,\" official news agency UzA reported. The ministry said the evacuation was unnecessary because the \"displaced citizens\" posed no threat to security on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. Blaming \"outside forces\" for pressuring Kyrgyzstan, the statement concluded, \"Uzbekistan\'s Foreign Ministry views all of this as the unacceptable and crude interference of outside forces in an attempt to play the card of the so-called \'Uzbek refugees\' and continue the undeclared information war, which was planned, like the \'Andijon operation\' itself, long before the tragic events of 13 May in Andijon.FEDERATION COUNCIL SPEAKER WELCOMES UZBEK EVICTION OF U.S. MILITARY
By empty (8/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Federation Council speaker Sergei Mironov said on 1 August that Uzbek officials made the correct decision by giving the United States six months to withdraw its troops from the Karshi-Khanabad air base. \"The Uzbek authorities took an absolutely pragmatic and logical step,\" Mironov said before going on to suggest that the antiterrorist operation in neighboring Afghanistan is over and \"it\'s time for the Americans to leave Uzbekistan.\" Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said last week that Russia set out no timetables regarding U.DEMOCRATS TO RUN IN THE CHECHEN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
By empty (8/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian democratic parties plan to participate in the parliamentary elections in Chechnya and set up a faction in the republic\'s parliament, Musa Sadayev, chairman of the Coordinating Council of Chechnya\'s Democratic Forces, told a news conference at the Interfax main office in Moscow on Tuesday. State Duma deputy and Republican Party of Russia member Vladimir Ryzhkov, Our Choice party leader Irina Khakamada and representatives of Chechen democratic movements are attending the news conference, as well. \"Today, all democratic parties have established their branches in the Chechen republic.Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
Analysis Laura Linderman, "Rising Stakes in Tbilisi as Elections Approach," Civil Georgia, September 7, 2024.
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.