News Digest
BUS HITS HOUSE IN KAZAKHSTAN, KILLING 7
By empty (11/25/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A passenger coach slammed into a residential building in Kazakhstan in the early hours Saturday, leaving 7 people dead and 13 others injured, the Central Asian republic\'s emergencies ministry said. \"A Mercedes bus, with 20 passengers on board, crashed into a private house at 1:20 a.m.UZBEKISTAN REJECTS U.S. CHARGE OF RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE
By empty (11/24/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbekistan has condemned a U.S. State Department decision to include it on a list of so-called Countries of Particular Concern (CPCs) for Severe Violations of Religious Freedom, the Uzbek foreign ministry said Friday.KAZAKH SAYS BORAT CREATOR DESERVES PRIZE
By empty (11/24/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A leading Kazakh writer has nominated actor Sacha Baron Cohen for a national award for popularizing Kazakhstan. Novelist Sapabek Asip-uly called on the Kazakh Club of Art Patrons to give Baron Cohen its annual award, according to a letter published by the Vremya newspaper Thursday. Baron Cohen\'s fictional character Borat \"has managed to spark an immense interest of the whole world in Kazakhstan, something our authorities could not do during the years of independence,\" said Asip-uly.KYRGYZ OPPOSITION PARTY SAYS ONE OF ITS MEMBERS DETAINED
By empty (11/24/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan\'s Ata Meken (Fatherland) opposition party says one of its members has been detained by Kyrgyz security services for unspecified reasons, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. One of Bakyt Kalpetov\'s lawyers, Kasymbek Raiymkul-uulu, told RFE/RL he has been prevented from seeing his client, whom he says has started a hunger strike to protest his detention. Ata Meken party leaders allege Kalpetov\'s detention is part of political pressure being exerted against the party because of its activities.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.