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KAZAKHSTAN TO JOIN RUSSIA\'S INITIATIVE TO SET UP INTL NUCLEAR CYCLE CENTER – PUTIN
By empty (10/3/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said that his country would join Russia\'s initiative to set up an international center that would provide nuclear cycle services in Russia, under the International Atomic Energy Agency\'s control, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. \"Taking into account the Kazakh nuclear power industry\'s scientific and productive potential, Nursultan Nazarbayev has decided to hook Kazakhstan to the Russian initiative to set up an international center that would provide a nuclear fuel cycle, including uranium enrichment, in Russia under the IAEA\'s control,\" Putin said at a press conference in Uralsk on Tuesday. (Interfax).PUTIN ARRIVES IN URALSK TO MEET KAZAKH PRESIDENT
By empty (10/3/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Uralsk where he will meet Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and attend a forum of the border regions of the two countries. During his visit the governments of the two countries are expected to sign a cooperation agreement related to the Orenburg gas processing plant. Earlier Nazarbayev said that the agreement will provide for setting up a joint venture to process gas extracted from the Karachaganak gas condensate field.RUSSIAN OFFICERS DETAINED IN GEORGIA HANDED OVER TO OSCE HEAD
By empty (10/2/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The four Russian officers detained in Georgia on espionage charges have been handed over to Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Chairman-in-Office Karel de Gucht. The servicemen have left for Tbilisi Airport to catch a Russia-bound flight. The ceremony took place at the headquarters of the Georgian Prosecutor General\'s Office at around 5:30 p.THIRTEEN GEORGIANS TO BE DEPORTED FROM MOSCOW
By empty (10/2/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Moscow authorities are preparing to deport 13 Georgian citizens who have been living in the city without the required documents, the press service of the Moscow department of the Federal Migration Service told Interfax. The thirteen currently being held at the pre-trial detention center for foreigners, the press service said. \"The Preobrazhensky inter-district court took the decision on their deportation,\" the press service said.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.