News Digest
AZERI ELECTION COULD BE POSTPONED
By empty (8/12/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Azeri government has proposed an amendment to the countryfs electoral law that a presidential election should be postponed in case of the incumbent presidentfs illness or resignation. According to the Azertaj news agency, the Constitutional Court of Azerbaijan has agreed to consider the Cabinetfs request. Heydar Aliyev, the ailing 80-year-old Azeri President, is being treated at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.AZERBAIJANI OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON U.S. CONCERNS ABOUT APPROACHING ELECTION
By empty (7/17/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Novruz Mammadov, the head of the foreign relations department of the Azerbaijani presidential staff, said on 17 July that a recent U.S State Department statement expressing concern over the upcoming presidential election is \"normal\" and merely reflects an interest in Azerbaijani affairs. The U.CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION OFFICIALLY CERTIFIES AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT\'S CANDIDACY
By empty (7/18/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijan\'s Central Election Commission met on 18 July and formally certified the candidacy of President Heidar Aliev for re-election in the October presidential election. Commission officials dismissed 1,256 of the nearly 52,000 signed petitions in support of the candidacy before registering the incumbent president as the candidate of the \"Yeni Azerbaican\" Party. (ANS).PROMINENT INGUSH JOURNALIST KILLED IN MOSCOW
By empty (7/19/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An unknown person killed Ingush journalist Alikhan Guliev on 18 July near his home in Moscow, Russian media reported. Guliev, who worked for a regional television station in Ingushetia and as a stringer for TV-Tsentr and \"Kommersant-Daily,\" was well known for his analytical reports about Chechnya and Ingushetia. Guliev had also publicized critical materials about former Ingush Interior Minister Khamsat Gutseriev.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.