News Digest
KYRGYZ GOVT DENIES BARRING OPPOSITION LEADERS FROM TV
By empty (11/3/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyz opposition leaders have claimed that Prime Minister Felix Kulov banned their appearance live on national TV on Friday evening, but the government press service denied the claim. \"Prime Minister Felix Kulov has not issued an instruction barring opposition leaders from appearing live on state television,\" the government press service told Interfax on Friday evening. (Interfax).GROZNY POLICE FIND ARMS, EXPLOSIVES IN CAR OWNED BY MAN FROM INGUSHETIA
By empty (11/2/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Grozny police have found a large number of weapons, ammunition and explosives inside a car belonging to a resident of Ingushetia, who has been detained. Police officers stopped a car with license plates issued in the Moscow region in the Zavodskoy district of the Chechen capital, the republic\'s Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov told Interfax on Thursday. \"The car\'s driver has been identified as Salambek Yevloyev, a resident of Nazran.AZERI OPPOSITION CALLS ON OSCE TO BE REMOVED FROM KARABAKH MEDIATION
By empty (11/2/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Our Azerbaijan opposition bloc has urged the Azeri authorities to stop the OSCE Minsk Group\'s mediation in the solution of the Karabakh conflict. \"The bloc calls on the Azeri authorities to take specific steps for the military liberation of the territories occupied by Armenian armed groups and to refuse the mediating services of the OSCE Minsk Group, which is not fair in the Karabakh settlement,\" says a bloc statement released in Baku on Thursday. (Interfax).GEORGIA WANTS TO KNOW FORMULA OF GAS PRICING
By empty (11/2/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia’s Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili told reporters today, on November 2, that Gazprom’s intention to raise gas price is based not on economical, but on political reasoning. “The Russian side should show to us the formula of pricing. We should know, wherefrom the price derives and why it is equal to the price for East-European countries,” Bezhuashvili, who is now in Moscow, told Georgian TV-reporters.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.