News Digest
TAJIKISTAN HOPES TO SELL ELECTRICITY TO EUROPE, SAYS PRIME MINISTER
By empty (9/2/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tajik Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov told a news conference in Dushanbe that Tajikistan wants to sell electricity to Europe cheaply when a series of new hydroelectric plants is completed. The Tajik power exports would use the Russian electricity grid. Oqilov noted that Tajikistan signed an agreement in June to supply 5 million kilowatts to Russia daily, thereby demonstrating that Tajik electricity can find a market.PROTESTS OVER ELECTRICITY SHORTAGES CONTINUE IN GEORGIA
By empty (9/2/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Several hundred residents of the southern Georgian Marneuli region blocked the central highway to Tbilisi on 2 September to protest the mounting electricity shortage. The Marneuli region has been without adequate electricity for nearly a week and similar protests in other regions have already been staged. Georgian government officials announced that Russia\'s Unified Energy Systems (EES) would resume electricity to most regions after completing repairs to the Kavkasioni high-voltage transmission lines.RUSSIA, SAUDIS SIGN OIL ACCORDS
By empty (9/2/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Saudi Arabia and Russia signed an oil-industry cooperation agreement on 2 September during a visit to Moscow by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. After talks between Abdullah and President Vladimir Putin, the two countries\' energy ministers signed a five-year gas-and-oil cooperation deal. The agreement calls for joint ventures in oil-and-gas exploration and research, according to a text released by the Russian government and cited by news agencies.MUFTI KILLED IN CHECHNYA
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Unidentified gunmen shot dead Shamkhan Madagov, mufti of Vedeno Raion, early on 31 August in the courtyard of his home in front of his wife and children. A total of 18 imams and other Muslim clerics have been killed over the past three years, and four since the beginning of this year. (RFE/RL).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.