News Digest
MUSLIMS CALL TO AN END TO AZERBAIJAN HEADSCARF BAN
By empty (9/5/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Religious activists in predominantly Shiite Muslim Azerbaijan on Monday called for officials to change rules barring headscarves in ID photos, saying the law violated observant women\'s civil rights. Women who refuse to remove their headscarves for passport and other identification photos have unequal access to everything from jobs and health care to travel and their right to vote, members of the Centre for the Protection of Freedom of Conscience and Religion said at a gathering in Baku. \"In reality their rights are limited though the constitution and number of international documents give them the right to cover their heads,\" the centre said in a statement read at the meeting.KADYROV PLEDGES TO BRING KONDOPOGA SITUATION INTO LEGAL FRAME IF LOCAL GOVT FAILS
By empty (9/4/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, concerned about the situation in Kondopoga in the Republic of Karelia, has reproached the local authorities for inactivity. \"Massive disturbances, triggered off by conflict between a company of drunk young men with a criminal record, and a barman of Chechen origin, who had reprimanded them for an unruly conduct, are continuing in Karelia\'s Kondopoga. A brawl has evolved into an ethnically motivated conflict with a clearly anti-Chechen and anti-Caucasus bias,\" Kadyrov said in an official statement on Monday.KAZMUNAIGAZ TO LIST ON LONDON EXCHANGE
By empty (9/4/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazmunaigaz Exploration and Production, a subsidiary of Kazakhstan\'s national oil company Kazmunaigaz, says it plans to list about 40 percent of its capital on the London and Kazakhstan stock markets. \"I am very pleased that Kazmunaigaz Exploration and Production is today announcing its introduction on the stock market,\" managing director Askar Baljanov said Monday. A company statement did not disclose the amount of money the group hopes to raise.NAZARBAYEV CONSIDERING DIVERTING SIBERIAN RIVERS TO CENTRAL ASIA
By empty (9/4/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is studying the possibility to deliver water of Siberian rivers to the Central Asian region. \"I have been raising the issue recently,\" Nazarbayev said at a joint press conference with Uzbek President Islam Karimov in Astana on Monday. Diverting Siberian rivers will not have a negative impact on the environment, he said.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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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.