Field Reports
A FIRST CASE OF SUSPICION OF STATE TREASON IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Maral Madi (7/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On 25 June the law enforcement agents from National Security Service (SNB) arrested five persons on charges of state treason and sale of state secrets to a foreign state. The arrested are two ex-officers of Ministry of Interior, an employee at the Feldjäger post service (military/state courier) under the Ministry of Transportation and Communication, a lecturer from the university in Bishkek, and a big entrepreneur. Later on July 1, SNB arrested a Colonel from the border guards services, and an ex-employee of SNB.AZERBAIJAN LOOKS TO PAKISTAN FOR MILITARY AID
By Fariz Ismailzade (7/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Musharraf thanked the Azerbaijani side for supporting Pakistan on Kashmir issue and pledged to continue supporting Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh issue. “Azerbaijan must restore its control over Nagorno-Karabakh and other occupied territories. Pakistan will do its best to help Azerbaijan.ASSANDI TIMES NEWSPAPER EFFECTIVELY CLOSED DOWN IN KAZAKHSTAN
By Olivia Allison (7/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Despite the seizure of its assets and the enormous fine, Assandi Times has announced publicly and on its Web site that it will resume publication Aug. 13. Nursultan Nazarbaev’s presidential administration filed the case after Assandi Times wrote an article in early June saying the editorial staff thought the presidential administration or someone close to it had produced a June 2 false issue of the newspaper.IS SOUTH OSSETIA BEING SACRIFICED?
By John Petrashvili (7/14/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
This week, while trenches were being dug on the Ossetian side, the Georgian interior troops mobilized outside at outskirts of the region. Inhabitants increasingly worried as the conflict moved closer to their summer houses. Reports gradually came from the Georgian television station Rustavi 2 that a few villages had exchanged fire.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.