News Digest
KYRGYZ PARLIAMENTARY BUGGING SCANDAL GROWS
By empty (1/16/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
As of the beginning of the Kyrgyz Legislative Assembly\'s 16 January session, listening devices had been found in the offices of seven parliamentarians. The scandal erupted two days earlier when General Ismail Isakov, head of the parliamentary State Security Committee and a former security official, announced he had found a bug in his office. Other parliamentarians made similar discoveries and, in a special session on 15 January, accused the National Security Service of planting the devices.GEORGIAN DEFENSE MINISTER LEAVES FOR IRAQ
By empty (1/16/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Defense Minister Davit Tevzadze left Tbilisi on 15 January to visit Iraq to inspect a Georgian peacekeeping detachment currently deployed in the town of Tikrit. The Georgian detachment, deployed in Iraq since August, includes mine-clearing specialists and doctors. It is to be replaced by another group of 200 Georgian soldiers, and the country is also planning to dispatch an entire 500-soldier battalion to Iraq sometime this summer.GEORGIAN CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION RELEASES FINAL RESULTS FROM SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT
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The Central Election Commission (CEC) released the final results on 15 January of the 4 January special presidential ballot, according to the Rustavi-2 website. With more than 1.9 million of the country\'s 2.EXXONMOBIL REPORTS ON INVESTMENTS IN AZERBAIJAN
By empty (1/15/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Exxon Azerbaijan Operating Company, a subsidiary of the U.S. company ExxonMobil, invested more than $1.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.