News Digest
UZBEKISTAN TIGHTENS CONTROLS ON GROUPS
By empty (1/22/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Uzbek government is seeking to tighten control over international human rights and democracy organizations out of fear that some are promoting a Georgian-style revolution, officials with the groups say. Authorities have adopted a new requirement for international groups to register with the Justice Ministry by March 1. The organizations previously registered only with the Foreign Ministry.UZBEKISTAN AMNESTIES ABOUT 3,500
By empty (1/22/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The office of Uzbekistan\'s prosecutor-general announced on 22 January that an amnesty decreed in December by President Islam Karimov to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the country\'s constitution has freed about 3,500 convicts. Of the 3,381 people covered by the amnesty, 391 were sentenced for crimes against the constitutional order and public safety, charges often filed against alleged Islamist extremists. (Interfax) .U.S. GIVES HELICOPTERS TO KYRGYZSTAN TO HELP SECURE BORDER
By empty (1/22/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Two Russian-made Mi-8 MTV helicopters were presented to Kyrgyzstan by the United States on 22 January at a ceremony at the Frunze-1 military airfield outside Bishkek. The helicopters are to be used to combat smuggling. The Mi-8s and their accompanying spare-parts packages were described by U.UZBEKS BUILDING DAM TO CONTAIN OVERFLOW FROM KAZAKH RESERVOIR
By empty (1/22/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Uzbek daily \"Pravda vostoka\" reported on 21 January that a 2.4-kilometer dam is being built in Navoi Oblast to contain water that has been released from the Chardara Reservoir on the Kazakh-Uzbek border. The water was released to prevent the Syrdarya River from destroying the Chardara Dam in Kazakhstan.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.