News Digest
NINE YEAR OLD GIRL KILLED BY RUSSIA \'RACISTS
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A nine-year old Tajik girl has been stabbed to death in the Russian city of St Petersburg by suspected skinheads. Police said a group of youths armed with knives and bats attacked the girl on Monday night, stabbing her 11 times. Her father and an 11-year old boy were also hospitalized with head wounds.GEORGIA\'S SAAKASHVILI SEEKS NEW BEGINNING IN MOSCOW
By empty (2/10/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia\'s newly-elected President Mikhail Saakashvili urged Russia to open a new chapter in relations with Tbilisi and not fear rivalry from the United States as he began his first official visit to Moscow. \"I have come to offer a hand to Russia and I hope my message will be heard. Georgia is ready for open and constructive cooperation with Russia,\" said Saaksahvili in an address to students of the prestigious Moscow State Institute of International Relations.AFGHAN CHILD SOLDIERS\' NEW START
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The United Nations has launched a reintegration and rehabilitation programme for thousands of former child soldiers in Afghanistan. The UN Children\'s Fund, Unicef, will begin by targeting 2,000 children in the north-east province of Badakhshan. They will be offered education, vocational training and lessons in civic responsibilities.KAZAKHSTAN SIGNS FOR ADB LOAN TO PROVIDE RURAL DRINKING WATER
By empty (2/9/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Kazakh government signed an agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Astana on 9 February, under which the ADB will loan Kazakhstan $34.6 million over 25 years for a rural drinking-water project. The project, which is being financed by Kazakhstan (about $21 million) and the Islamic Development Bank ($9.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.