News Digest
ABASHIDZE’S SUPPORTERS PUT UP POSTERS IN BATUMI
By empty (7/20/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Former Ajarian leader Aslan Abashidze turned 67 on Wednesday, and a group of his supporters marked the day by hanging posters marked with his picture and the slogan \"I will be back\" in Batumi. The posters were quickly torn down by the police. The Georgian authorities claim there are no people supporting Abashidze in Ajaria.TAJIKISTAN SENTENCES 299 HIZB-UT-TAHRIR MEMBERS IN 2000-05
By empty (7/20/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tajik Prosecutor General\'s Office official Abdukodir Mukhammadiyev said that 299 members of the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir extremist organization have been sentenced in 2000-05. \"Fifteen cases are currently open,\" Mukhammadiyev said. \"Since the beginning of the year, 20 criminal cases on 25 members of the organization have been closed.CHECHNYA BLAST DEATH TOLL RISES TO 14
By empty (7/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Tuesday explosion in Nadterechnaya district in Chechnya killed 14 and injured more than 20, said Chechen President Alu Alkhanov. \"The bloody events perpetrated by terrorists have caused extreme indignation on the part of the entire Chechen people,\" Alkhanov told reporters. \"A bloody war has been unleashed against us, a war in which people are dying, and it is being waged by the basest of means,\" he said.OPPOSITION RALLY IN AZERI CAPITAL
By empty (7/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Some 20,000 people have marched in Azerbaijan\'s capital Baku demanding free and fair elections and calling for the president to resign. It is the second time in the past two weeks that Azerbaijan\'s government has allowed the opposition to hold a rally. It was organised by three leading opposition parties which form the the Azadlig or Freedom bloc.Visit also
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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.