News Digest
OSCE, COUNCIL OF EUROPE CRITICIZE DUMA POLL
By empty (12/9/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The OSCE and the Council of Europe said on 8 December that the results of the State Duma election were \"fundamentally distorted,\" \"The Moscow Times\" reported on 9 December. The two groups, which had about 500 observers monitoring the 7 December elections, cited abuses of administrative resources during the campaign, including preferential coverage by the state media and the fact that about one-third of the country\'s governors were on Unified Russia\'s party list. While the international observers praised the TsIK for conducting the election \"highly professionally,\" they called the process as a whole \"fundamentally unfair.EXPLOSION KILLS SIX IN CENTRAL MOSCOW
By empty (12/9/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An explosion outside the National Hotel in downtown Moscow on 9 December killed six people and injured at least 13 others. Police did not confirm initial reports that the explosion was caused by one or two female suicide bombers, although Sergei Tsoi, a spokesman for Moscow Mayor Yurii Luzhkov, was quoted as saying, \"We can say with certainty that this was a terrorist act.\" Police used a robot to neutralize a second explosive found in a suitcase at the scene.TYCOON THREATENS TO SUE MOSCOW
By empty (12/8/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In an interview published in Britain\'s \"Financial Times\" on 5 December, Boris Berezovskii said that he intends to file a $1 billion claim against the Russian government in the British courts and the European Court of Human Rights in connection with Moscow\'s alleged seizure of his media, mining, and oil-sector assets. Berezovskii said that after he began criticizing President Putin, he was forced to sell his stake in major Russian companies, including ORT, TV-6, and Sibneft. Former oligarch Vladimir Gusinskii has filed a similar suit against the Kremlin with the European Court of Human Rights, and Moscow should expect a similar complaint from former Yukos head Khodorkovskii, the newspaper wrote.UNIFIED RUSSIA WINS BIG
By empty (12/8/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Central Election Commission\'s (TsIK) Aleksandr Veshnyakov announced that as of 10 a.m., Moscow time, that day and with 90.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.