News Digest
PUTIN HONORS TROOPS WHO QUASHED DAGHESTAN INCURSION
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At a 5 January Kremlin ceremony, President Putin awarded medals and orders to a group of military intelligence (GRU) special-forces troops who participated in the military operation against a group of Chechen militants who penetrated into Daghestan on 15 December, RIA-Novosti and ORT reported. An unidentified GRU officer who spoke at the award ceremony said that as a result of the operation \"a major group of rebels led by a serious field commander has ceased to exist\" and that the public will soon learn more about this. (RIA-Novosti).10 CANDIDATES MAKE FIRST CUT IN RACE FOR RUSSIAN PRESIDENCY
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Central Election Commission (TsIK) Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov told reporters in Moscow on 5 January that 10 people have completed the first steps to compete as candidates in the 14 March presidential election. Four political parties -- the Communist Party, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), the Party of Life, and the Russian Regions party -- have nominated candidates. The Communists are backing State Duma Deputy Nikolai Kharitonov.IDEOLOGUE OF ANTI-OLIGARCH CAMPAIGN CALLS FOR STRATEGY OF \'NATIONAL REVENGE\'
By empty (1/5/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian National Strategy Council Director Stanislav Belkovskii in separate interviews with RosBalt on 24 December and \"Zavtra,\" No. 52, said the main goal for President Vladimir Putin in 2004 will be to present the country with a new political course, which could be called \"the strategy of Russian national revenge in all possible forms.\" Belkovskii, who is widely believed to have foreshadowed the campaign in recent months against the oligarchs with his analytical reports last summer stated that the essence of the new course \"will be to put an end to the epoch [of former President Boris Yeltsin] and to bring to power a new anti-Yeltsin elite.AGREEMENT SIGNED ON U.S. FINANCING OF TAJIK-AFGHAN BRIDGE
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Tajik Transport Minister Abduzhalol Salimov and U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan Richard Hoagland have signed an agreement on U.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.