News Digest
TAJIK ROAD BUILDERS COMPLETE ALTERNATE NORTH-SOUTH ROUTE
By empty (12/8/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Tajik Transport Ministry has completed a route that permits communication by road between southern and northern Tajikistan in winter when the usual route over the Anzob Pass is closed by snow. Instead of using roads in Uzbekistan as was previously necessary, the new route crosses part of Kyrgyzstan\'s Osh Oblast. The new route will allow Tajik truckers and passenger-bus firms to avoid the type of problems with Uzbek border guards and customs officials that were recently reported by trucking firms in the west Tajik town of Pendzhikent.AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION LEADER CALLS FOR END TO PROTEST HUNGER STRIKE
By empty (12/8/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Isa Qambar, Musavat party chairman and defeated presidential challenger, appealed on 8 December to participants to end the hunger strike they began on 1 December. The hunger strikers are demanding the release of some 100 opposition activists detained following clashes between police and opposition supporters in the wake of the disputed 15 October presidential ballot. Democratic Party of Azerbaijan Secretary-General Serdar Djalaloglu, who was arrested on 18 October for his imputed role in the unrest, ended his hunger strike on 8 December.TWO GEORGIAN BORDER GUARD OFFICIALS FIRED OVER BEREZOVSKY VISIT
By empty (12/7/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The head of the analysis department of Georgia\'s border protection agency, Irakly Papava, and the head of the Tbilisi airport checkpoint, Khvicha Dvalishvili, were dismissed in the wake of Boris Berezovsky\'s visit to Tbilisi on December 3, a Border Department source has reported. The Prosecutor General\'s Office has opened an investigation against Papava and Dvalishvili. Border Department Chairman Valery Chkheidze submitted his resignation to acting president Nino Burjanadze on Friday, but it was not accepted.U.S. SAYS SEES REAL INSTABILITY THREAT IN GEORGIA
By empty (12/5/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The United States said on Friday that Georgia\'s three restive regions and Russian intimidation in the ex-Soviet Caucasus meant Georgia faced a real threat of instability after last month\'s bloodless revolution. U.S.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.