News Digest
FOUR RUSSIAN POLICEMEN DIE IN BLAST NEAR CHECHNYA
By empty (11/14/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Four elite Russian policemen were killed in an explosion on Friday when their team was called to a house near the separatist region of Chechnya, a police source said. The police source said two other members of the OMON police unit summoned to the house in Ingushetia, on Chechnya\'s western border, were in serious condition. \"Information was received that representatives of illegal armed groups were in the house and an OMON group was sent there,\" the source told Reuters.ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK TO LOAN UZBEKISTAN UP TO $150 MILLION ANNUALLY
By empty (11/13/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Tashkent representative of the Asian Development Bank (ABD) told RIA-Novosti on 13 November that under the bank\'s revised program for Uzbekistan for 2004 to 2006, the country will receive loans of $100 million to $150 million annually for the next three years. The loans are intended to stimulate economic growth and the development of human resources, focusing particularly on maternal and child health, publication of textbooks, entrepreneurship, agricultural development, and modernizing energy-delivery systems. The ADB loaned Uzbekistan $695.U.S. IMPRESSED WITH DEMOCRATIZATION IN TAJIKISTAN
By empty (11/13/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Lorne Craner, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, told journalists after meeting with Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov on 13 November that the U.KAZAKH OPPOSITION ACCUSES GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS OF UNDERMINING REFORMS
By empty (11/13/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Bolat Abilov, co-chairman of the opposition Ak Zhol Party, on 13 November told a correspondent from the Kazakhstan Today news agency that reforms in Kazakhstan are being \"torpedoed\" by the entourage of President Nursultan Nazarbaev and members of the government. Abilov said that the officials opposing economic and political reform do not want Kazakh society to become more open and transparent. Thus, they do not want honest elections, competitive media, decentralization of power, or for heads of regional government administrations to be elected rather than appointed.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.