News Digest
CHECHEN AUTHORITIES DENY ALLEGATIONS OF TORTURE
By empty (11/13/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen authorities have denied allegations by Human Rights Watch that prisoners in Chechnya are regularly subjected to torture. \"This information is untrue. If torture really took place, we would speak about this problem, and so would prisoners\' relatives,\" Chechnya\'s Deputy Prime Minister and Ambassador Plenipotentiary in Moscow Ziad Sabsabi told Interfax on Monday.EUROPE\'S UZBEKISTAN DILEMMA
By empty (11/13/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
EU foreign ministers are this week reviewing sanctions imposed on Uzbekistan following the violent suppression of a demonstration in the eastern city of Andijan, in May 2005. Germany and some other EU states have been calling for the sanctions to be eased. They say the measures have not worked, and greater dialogue with the resource-rich Central Asian nation is needed.KAZAKHSTAN\'S CASINOS TO BE RESTRICTED TO TWO RESORTS
By empty (11/13/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The gaming industry in Kazakhstan will be authorized in only two areas as of January 1. Kazakh media report a Security Council meeting today ruled to restrict gaming activities to the resort towns of Kapchagai, in southeastern Kazakhstan, and in the northern town of Shchuchinsk. Finance Minister Natalya Korzhova said that a law banning gaming establishments in the rest of the country is currently under consideration in parliament.TRANSPORT SEMINAR FOR TRACECA MEMBER STATES TO BE HELD IN ISTANBUL
By empty (11/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Turkish city of Istanbul will host November 20 the four-day transport seminar for the TRACECA (Transport Corridor Europe Caucasus Asia) member states, TRACECA Intergovernmental Commission’s National Secretary in Azerbaijan Akif Mustafayev said. He noted representatives of Azerbaijan’s major transport agencies will attend the event. (Azertag).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.