News Digest
HYUNDAI PURSUING PLANT IN UZBEKISTAN
By empty (10/13/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Hyundai Motor Co., the world\'s sixth-largest automaker, said Friday it is in talks with the Uzbekistan government to buy state-owned UZ-Daewoo Motors, formerly owned by South Korea\'s now-defunct Daewoo Group. \"Nothing has been decided,\" said a Hyundai Motor spokesman, Jake Jang.GEORGIAN TEACHERS CONDEMN RUSSIA\'S \"PERSECUTION\" OF GEORGIANS
By empty (10/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Several dozen members of the Georgian trade union of teachers demonstrated outside the Russian embassy in Tbilisi on Thursday demanding an end to what they called the persecution of Georgians by authorities in Russia. \"We protest against the open persecution of Georgians by the Russian authorities. Georgians in Russia have found themselves in the situation Jews were in in Nazi Germany in the 30s,\" one of the organizers, Manana Burchumelidze, told reporters.UZBEKISTAN TO ALMOST DOUBLE GAS EXPORT PRICE
By empty (10/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbekistan warned Russia and its Central Asian neighbours on Thursday it would almost double its gas export price at the start of next year. Uzbek state pipeline company Uztransgas published a statement in an Uzbek newspaper saying it would charge $100 per 1,000 cubic metres from Jan.1, 2007, up from a current $55-60.FOOD AID DWINDLING IN CHECHNYA, AZERBAIJAN: U.N. ENVOY
By empty (10/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Food aid in Russia\'s Chechnya and in neighboring Azerbaijan is dwindling because of funding shortages and could run out within weeks, a United Nations envoy said on Thursday. Jean Ziegler, the U.N.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.