News Digest
KYRGYZ OPPOSITION OFFICIAL DENIES EMBEZZLEMENT ALLEGATIONS
By empty (7/25/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Emil Aliev, senior leader of the opposition Ar-Namys Party while party Chairman Feliks Kulov remains in prison, told journalists on 24 July that the accusations made against him the previous day by presidential administrator Bolot Djanuzakov were false, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported the same day. Djanuzakov, who heads the department of defense and security in the office of President Askar Akaev, told journalists that Aliev had embezzled $80,000 from farmers in Batken Oblast. Djanuzakov used Aliev to illustrate his point that a wide range of political figures had been able to take part in a government-organized roundtable on 19 July.CASPIAN STATES TO INK OFFSHORE ENVIRONMENT ACCORD IN NOVEMBER
By empty (7/25/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The five countries surrounding the Caspian Sea plan to sign an offshore environment accord in November at a meeting in Tehran, Iran\'s deputy minister of foreign affairs Mehdi Safari said Thursday. Safari was speaking at the close of the latest round of negotiations of a new convention for the Caspian Sea attended by deputy ministers from Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran. The environmental agreement will form part of the general convention which will also cover, offshore boundaries, resource management, fishing, shipping and security in the Caspian Sea.GASPROM TO BRANCH OUT IN ASHGHABAD AND SUPPORT RUSSIAN CULTURE IN TURKMENISTAN
By empty (7/25/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Russian Gasprom will start its permanent office in Turkmenistan in the nearest future. The Gasprom chairman Alexei Miller announced it after the meeting with Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov. According to him the issues of purely technical nature are being settled at present time.TAJIK EX-INTERIOR MINISTER MAY BE CHARGED WITH MURDER
By empty (7/28/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Former Tajik Interior Minister Yakub Salimov may be charged with organizing several murders, an Interior Ministry source told Interfax on Saturday. Salimov is suspected of involvement in killing top officials and in an abduction in August 1997 in Uzbekistan. Russia\'s Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Salimov on June 30.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Greater Central Asia as A Component of U.S. Global Strategy, October 2024.
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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.