News Digest
FOREIGNERS AMONG 60 INSURGENTS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN OPERATION
By empty (11/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A NATO and Afghan operation that has now ended killed more than 60 Taliban-linked rebels over six days, a provincial governor said, adding that Chechen and Arab fighters were among the dead. The operation was near the border with Pakistan in the province of Paktika, which has recently seen significant security force action against militants, some of whom have admitted to infiltrating from across the border. NATO\'s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed it had been involved in the operation in Barmal district of Paktika.S.OSSETIAN REFERENDUM, ELECTIONS COME TO END
By empty (11/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The South Ossetian referendum on independence and presidential elections have finished, a statement published on the official web site of the South Ossetian State Information and Press Committee reads. \"All polling stations closed in South Ossetia at 8 p.m.OKRUASHVILI DISMISSAL FOILED MILITARY COUP ATTEMPT IN GEORGIA - RUSSIAN ANALYST
By empty (11/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
By dismissing Irakly Okruashvili as Georgian defense minister, President Mikheil Saakashvili averted a military coup in Georgia, Russian Political Research Institute Director Sergei Markov said. \"This is super news. I believe this is the most important news from Georgia in 2006 - it is even more significant than the arrest of Russian officers.ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK TO GRANT UZBEKISTAN MORE THAN $60MLN
By empty (11/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Asian Development Bank (ADB) will grant Uzbekistan more than $60mln for restoration of its drainage and irrigative systems. As a REGNUM correspondent was informed at the ADB, the project envisages grounds’ improvement in area of more than 160,000 hectares in the republic’s three regions: Bukhara, Kashkadarya, and Navoi. \"The ADB grants $32.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.