CITIZENSHIP TO ALL FORMER SOVIETS WOULD JEOPARDIZE TRANSCAUCASUS
By Kornely Kakachia (10/25/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: With the collapse of the Soviet Union and as a result of national disintegration, several conflict zones were formed. Most of them were created by the Kremlin and supported by the Communist elite as well as by ultra-nationalist leaders among ethnic minorities. As a result, several long-lasting conflicts were initiated in the Caucasus including the Georgian-Abkhaz, Georgian-Ossetian, and Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts characterized by chaos, clan-relationships and power-vacuums could last for another hundred years should the international community neglect them.
CENTRAL ASIA-CAUCASUS ATHLETES:A NEW OLYMPIC POWERHOUSE?
By Rustem Safronov (10/25/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The Uzbekistani, Azerbaijani, and Kazakhstani successes in Sydney come as little surprise given that their athletes excelled in boxing and wrestling during Soviet times while the republics in the Caucasus traditionally produced top weightlifters and wrestlers. Recall, for example, the victories in the 1970s of the boxers Serik Konokbaev and Rufat Riskiev. The West recognized these athletes as "Russians," when in fact they hailed from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, respectively.
THE KURSK EXPLOSION: A RESULT OF DAGESTANI SABOTAGE?
By Dr. John C. K. Daly (10/25/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
BACKGROUND: The Kursk disappeared on 12 August during a Northern Fleet training exercise. The last message sent by the Kursk was a request to proceed with a training torpedo launch. A week later in an announcement made on 19 August, the Dagestani Shura claimed that Dagestani martyrs had sunk the Kursk with a torpedo explosion.
THE ISLAND OF AUTOCRACY?
By Gulsara Osorova (11/8/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
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