News Digest
SUSPECTED TERRORIST CELL BROKEN UP IN MOSCOW
By empty (6/9/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Federal Security Service (FSB) spokesman Sergei Ignatchenko announced on 9 June that the security service and the Interior Ministry conducted a joint operation in Moscow on 6 June in which 121 terrorist suspects were arrested. Ignatchenko said the Hizb ut-Tahrir network, which was banned as a terrorist organization by Russia in February, \"covers all regions of the Russian Federation\" and was engaged in recruiting mercenaries and funding and arming armed gangs operating in the North Caucasus and CIS countries. Fifty-five of the individuals arrested are suspected of being active members of Hizb ut-Tahrir.GENERAL ELECTRIC SIGNS MAJOR POWER STATION DEAL WITH TURKMENISTAN
By empty (6/7/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
US firm General Electric Co.has signed a 600-million-dollar (515-million-euro) power station construction and renovation deal aimed at increasing Turkmenistan\'s electricity exports, the Central Asian country\'s main newspaper said on Saturday. \"By increasing generating capacity by 35 percent to 40 percent the agreement will allow an increase in exports to Afghanistan, Turkey and elsewhere,\" the official Neitralny Turmenistan daily said.KYRGYZ PRIME MINISTER DENIES HE SUGGESTED MINISTERS SUE PARLIAMENTARIANS
By empty (6/3/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyz Prime Minister Nikolai Tanaev\'s press office denied on 31 May that Tanaev had made official statements about suing members of parliament over their criticism of his government and the country\'s law enforcement agencies, akipress.org reported on 2 June. The nongovernmental organization Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society had distributed a statement on 29 May asserting that Tanaev had told two government ministers that they should look into the possibility of suing individual parliamentarians if they had insulted the \"honor and dignity\" of the government in public statements.POLICE FORCIBLY PREVENT AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION PROTEST
By empty (6/3/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Armed police on 3 June forcibly prevented Azerbaijani oppositionists from congregating outside the parliament building in Baku to protest the provisions of the new election law. Police reportedly beat some demonstrators and arrested several dozen of them. On 2 June, Baku deputy police chief Yashar Aliev warned representatives of opposition parties aligned in the Opposition Coordinating Council (MKM) that organized the demonstration that the municipal authorities had rejected their application for permission to hold the protest outside the parliament building and had proposed an alternative venue.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.