News Digest
PUTIN ANNOUNCED APPOINTMENTS TO NEW CABINET
By empty (3/9/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Vladimir Putin has announced key appointments in the new Cabinet of Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov. At a meeting with the leaders of the Kremlin administration and several acting Cabinet members, he announced that Alexander Zhukov was appointed deputy prime minister, Sergei Lavrov foreign minister, Sergei Ivanov defense minister, Alexei Kudrin finance minister, Rashid Nurgaliyev interior minister, Sergei Shoigu emergency situations minister, German Gref economics and trade minister, Alexei Gordeyev agriculture and fisheries minister, Viktor Khristenko industry and energy minister, Mikhail Zurabov health and social development minister, Andrei Fursenko education and science minister, Alexander Sokolov culture and information minister, Yury Trutnev natural resources minister, Yury Chaika justice minister and Igor Levitin transport and communications minister. Dmitri Kozak was appointed chief of the government staff in the rank of minister and Igor Ivanov was appointed Security Council secretary.US CONDEMNED FOR AFGHAN \'ABUSES\'
By empty (3/8/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The actions of US military and intelligence units in Afghanistan have been heavily criticised in a new report by an international human rights group. US-based Human Rights Watch accuses US personnel of using excessive force, carrying out arbitrary detentions and mistreating people in custody. Washington keeps about 9,000 troops on Afghan soil, involved primarily in fighting the Taleban and al-Qaeda.A SENIOR AID WORKER HAS BEEN SHOT DEAD IN AFGHANISTAN
By empty (3/7/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Armed men on a motorcycle killed Mohammed Isha, director of the Afghan Red Crescent in the southern province of Zabul, on Saturday. Eight suspects have been arrested in connection with the killing, security officials said on Sunday. It is the latest attack on civilians involved in reconstruction or relief in Afghanistan - five aid workers have died in the past three weeks.KAZAKH PRESIDENT ENDS OFFICIAL VISIT TO SAUDI ARABIA
By empty (3/6/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Nursultan Nazarbaev returned to Kazakhstan on 6 March, ending an official visit to Saudi Arabia that began on 2 March, Khabar Television reported on 6 March. Summing up his visit, Nazarbaev stressed the possibility of future bilateral energy-sector cooperation. \"Today there exists a tremendous potential for bringing in specialists from Saudi Arabia\'s oil industry, and especially SABIC [Saudi Basic Industrial Corp.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.