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ROUNDTABLE ON CHECHNYA MAY BE HELD IN GROZNY - PACE DELEGATION
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Head of a the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) delegation Andreas Gross has hailed the decision of the Chechen authorities to hold the second PACE roundtable meeting on Chechnya in Grozny. Gross said at a meeting with Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov in Gudermes that the idea of the roundtable meeting in Grozny is sound. At the same time, the head of the delegation highlighted the fact that two conditions should be guaranteed to hold the meeting in Grozny.U.S. AND GEORGIA INVESTIGATE S. OSSETIA COUNTERFEITERS
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The U.S. Secret Service is working with police in the former Soviet republic of Georgia to investigate an international counterfeiting operation that produces fake $100 bills that have been seized in the United States and Israel, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.BUSH PRESSES KARZAI ON AFGHAN DRUG TRADE
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U.S. President George W.KAZAKHSTAN-AZERBAIJAN BUSINESS FORUM DUE IN ASTANA
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The Kazakhstan-Azerbaijan business forum will be held in the Kazakh capital, Astana, in early December, Azerbaijan’s Embassy to Kazakhstan said. Over twenty Azerbaijani companies will attend the forum. Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have signed over 80 agreements to date, including ones on economy, tourism and agriculture.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.