News Digest
ADJAR LEADER ORDERS DESTRUCTION OF BORDER BRIDGES
By empty (5/2/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
On orders from Adjar leader Aslan Abashidze, two bridges linking his autonomous republic with the rest of Georgia were blown up on 2 May. Abashidze argued that the move was necessary in the light of the largescale maneuvers by the Georgian military that began on the Georgian side of the order two days earlier, and which he feared presage military aggression against Adjaria. Adjar opposition leader Tamaz Diasamidze said on 2 May that Abashidze also ordered that railway tracks from Georgia to Adjaria be dismantled on the Adjar side of the internal border.AFGHAN TANKER EXPLOSION KILLS 31
By empty (5/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At least 31 people have been killed and many others injured after an explosion involving a fuel tanker in western Afghanistan, officials say. The incident happened in the town of Azizabad, about 650km west of Kabul, in the Shindand district of Herat. The explosion, believed to have been an accident, hit a busy area of shops and restaurants on the road between Herat city and Kandahar.UZBEKISTAN RECEIVES $516,600 IN U.S. EQUIPMENT AID
By empty (5/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbekistan\'s Defense Ministry, State Customs Committee, and Border Troops received $516,600 in equipment from the United States in a 30 April ceremony. The aid comes from the U.S.POLICE TARGET OPPOSITION IN AZERBAIJANI EXCLAVE
By empty (5/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Police in the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhichevan have intensified their harassment of opposition politicians in the wake of last week\'s announcement of the creation of a Center for Democratic Development (DIM) comprising the regional organizations of several prominent opposition parties. On 28 April, two men abducted and beat up a member of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, and the following day a Nakhichevan police official visited the DIM headquarters in Nakhichevan and warned activists to abandon their activities and stop publicizing negative political developments in the region. (Turan).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.