News Digest
SOUTH OSSETIAN INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM SLATED FOR NOV 12
By empty (9/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia will hold a referendum on its independence on November 12, 2006, head of its information and press committee Irina Gagloyeva has announced. She said the decree of South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity setting the date for the referendum was announced at a Monday conference of top government officials of the breakaway territory. (Interfax).ONE MILITANT ELIMINATED, THREE SURRENDER IN CHECHNYA
By empty (9/10/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An active member of a criminal armed group was eliminated in a sweep operation in Argun early on Sunday, Chechen Interior Ministry spokesman Magomed Deniyev told Interfax. \"The militant had been on the federal wanted list on suspicion of committing serious crimes. He was eliminated in an exchange of fire after he offered resistance.GEORGIA CLASHES WITH REBEL FORCES
By empty (9/9/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Four people are reported to have been killed in clashes in Georgia\'s breakaway region of South Ossetia. Georgian police said they were fired upon as they tracked smugglers. One of their number died and two were hurt.KAZAKH MIGRANT-LEGALIZATION PROGRAM CONTINUES
By empty (9/7/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Under the terms of a program to legalize migrant workers in Kazakhstan, a total of 45,440 such workers have been registered by the Interior Ministry. They include 33,500 Uzbek citizens (74.4 percent of the total), 6,000 Kyrgyz citizens (13.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.