News Digest
GEORGIAN PEACEKEEPERS\' DEPARTURE FOR IRAQ AGAIN DELAYED
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A contingent of 74 Georgian service personnel -- engineers, sappers, and medical personnel -- flew home to Tbilisi on 2 March after a six-month tour of duty with the international stabilization force in Iraq, Georgian media reported. But a further 217 Georgian service personnel who were supposed to replace them in Tikrit are unable to leave Georgia because of a lack of forms to apply for identification documents, Chief of the General Staff Major General Givi Iukuridze told Caucasus Press on 2 March. Iukuridze said no new date for the peacekeepers\' deployment to Iraq has been set.RUSSIA CONFIRMS DEAD CHECHEN WAS TOP COMMANDER
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Russia said Tuesday it was certain it had killed Ruslan Gelayev, a top Chechen rebel commander and one of Moscow\'s most wanted men. Russia\'s NTV television showed a bearded corpse lying almost fully covered by a black plastic sheet on a metal table, as medical and military officers looked on. \"We can say today with certainty that this is Gelayev\'s corpse.U.S. PROBE AL-QAEDA TIES OF RUSSIAN IN GUANTANAMO
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The extradition decision on the eighth Russian held at the U.S. Guantanamo naval base will be made after an investigation by the country\'s special services.PRIME MINISTER-DESIGNATE -- TECHNOCRAT, ECONOMIST
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Media and analysts were caught short by President Vladimir Putin\'s surprise 1 March nomination of Russian envoy to the EU Mikhail Fradkov as the next prime minister, Russian media reported on 2 March. In the flurry of press reports about Fradkov following Putin\'s announcement, the term \"technocrat\" was often used. Writing on politcom.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.