News Digest
AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION PLANS NEW PROTESTS
By empty (5/20/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Opposition Musavat Party Chairman Isa Gambar, who is also chairman of the Democratic Congress that unites 10 opposition parties, expressed support on 19 May for plans by the Opposition Coordinating Council (MKM), a rival political alignment of nine political parties, to hold further demonstrations to demand that the presidential elections due in October are free and fair. Some 25,000 people attended a demonstration in Baku on 18 May convened by the MKM. The MKM plans to hold further demonstrations in the provinces on 25 May.RADICAL CHECHEN WARLORD CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR RECENT BOMBINGS
By empty (5/20/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In a statement posted on 19 May on kavkazcenter.com, field commander Shamil Basaev claimed responsibility for the 12 May car-bomb attack in Znamenskoe in northern Chechnya and the suicide bombing two days later in Gudermes Raion. Deputy Prosecutor-General Fridinskii declined to comment on Basaev\'s claim, noting that no evidence is yet available to substantiate it.REBELS TARGET AID WORKERS IN AFGHANISTAN
By empty (5/20/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Aid workers in Afghanistan say rebels are increasingly targeting them in an effort to undermine the U.S.-backed government and undermine post-war reconstruction.AZERBAIJANI HUMAN RIGHTS FIGURE ASSAILED AFTER RETURNING FROM NAGORNO-KARABAKH
By empty (4/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Eldar Zeynalov, the head of the Azerbaijani Human Rights Center, was detained for questioning on 24 April after returning from a visit to Nagorno-Karabakh. The arrest followed a heated confrontation between Zeynalov and a group of 50-60 demonstrators picketing outside his Baku office to protest his trip. The demonstrators pelted the office with eggs and trash after Azerbaijani state television aired accusations that the activist is \"of Armenian origin\" and alleged that his acts are \"treasonous.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.