News Digest
AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION PARTY GIVEN ONE WEEK TO VACATE HEADQUARTERS
By empty (10/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Baku Municipal Council has ordered the opposition Musavat Party to vacate the premises it currently occupies in Baku by 1 November. Mayor Hadjibala Abutalibov argued that the building in question is of historic and architectural significance, and therefore cannot be leased. Musavat Party Chairman Isa Qambar, who claims to have defeated Prime Minister Ilham Aliyev in the 15 October presidential election, rejected Abutalibov\'s argument as illogical, pointing out that the headquarters of the ruling Yeni Azerbaycan Party are likewise located in a building that is designated an architectural and historic monument.CHECHEN LEADER NAMES CHIEF OF STAFF
By empty (10/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen President-elect Akhmed Kadyrov named Ziyad Mukhamed Sabsabi, a Syrian-born Chechen, on 23 October to head his presidential staff. A graduate of the university of Damascus, Sabsabi subsequently studied journalism in the late 1980s and early 1990s at Leningrad State University. His fellow students were convinced that he functioned at that time as a KGB informer, according to chechenpress.KYRGYZ-RUSSIAN INVESTMENT FORUM NETS AGREEMENTS WORTH $14 MILLION
By empty (10/23/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A two-day Kyrgyz-Russian Investment Forum in Bishkek on 22-23 October resulted in the signing of agreements worth $14 million. The forum was attended on its second day by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who told participants that Russia was particularly interested in investing in Kyrgyzstan\'s transport and energy sectors. Russian investors indicated that they wanted to bid on the electricity supplier Severoelektro, take part in the privatization of the state firm Kyrgyzgaz, and in the construction of the Kambar-Ata 2 power plant.IRAN TO PROVIDE IAEA WITH KEY NUKE DOCUMENTS
By empty (10/22/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Iran said Wednesday the Islamic Republic would hand over documents on its past nuclear activities to the U.N. nuclear watchdog later in the day to allay international suspicions it is planning a bomb.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.