News Digest
CANADIAN OIL COMPANY FACES $55 MILLION JUDGMENT IN KAZAKHSTAN
By empty (7/14/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
PetroKazakhstan, a Canadian-registered company that extracts oil in Kazakhstan, announced on 14 July that a Kazakh court has rendered a $55.4 million judgment against it for violations of antimonopoly legislation. The company said it has not yet received a written copy the court ruling, but noted that it plans to appeal.CASPIAN STATES TO CREATE ANTITERRORIST FLOTILLA.
By empty (7/14/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Caspian Sea countries have backed the idea of establishing a task force for fighting terrorism in the region, a senior officer in the Russian Navy said Thursday. \"The idea is to create a task group of the littoral states\' ships, similar to the Black Sea Force group, to fight terrorism, drug trafficking, and bio-terrorism,\" said Vice-Admiral Yury Startsev, who commands the Russian Caspian Flotilla. An international conference devoted to security in the Caspian is taking place in the Astrakhan region, in Russia\'s Volga area.GUNMEN KILL FOURTH AFGHAN CLERIC
By empty (7/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Suspected Taleban militants have shot dead a pro-government cleric in southern Afghanistan, the fourth such killing in the past two months. Maulvi Saleh Mohammad was shot by gunmen on a motorcycle in Lashkargar, the capital of Helmand province. A leading cleric in Paktika province and two in Kandahar have also been killed in recent weeks.AFGHAN ROLE FOR AUSTRALIA FORCES
By empty (7/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Australia is to send 150 special forces troops to Afghanistan by September to help counter increasing rebel attacks. Prime Minister John Howard said the deployment would begin in the run-up to Afghanistan\'s parliamentary elections and would last 12 months. Canberra sent more than 1,500 troops to Afghanistan in 2001 but they were withdrawn the following year.Visit also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.