News Digest
ABKHAZ GOVT FILES FOR RESIGNATION
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The government of the self- proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia has written a letter to Vladislav Ardzinba, the republic\'s president, asking him to accept the cabinet\'s resignation. This decision came in response to demands made by certain political forces to replace Prime Minister Gennady Gagulia and his First Deputy Ruslan Ardzinba, sources in the government of Abkhazia told Interfax. An anti-government rally is scheduled to take place in Sukhumi on April 10.U.S. SECURITY ADVISER ATTEMPTS TO MEND FENCES IN MOSCOW
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U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice met briefly in the Kremlin on 7 April with President Vladimir Putin.WOMEN DEMONSTRATE IN SUPPORT OF DEFEATED ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
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More than 2,000 women congregated on 7 April outside the Constitutional Court building in Yerevan to express their support for defeated presidential candidate Stepan Demirchian and to demand that the results of the February-March ballot be annulled, RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau reported. In a written statement, they also demanded that women be granted greater representation in government and parliament. (RFE/RL).TURKMEN STUDENTS STUDYING ABROAD HAVE TO RETURN HOME
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Many Turkmen students studying abroad are having to return home because their parents have been forbidden to buy convertible currency at reasonable rates in order to finance their studies, centrasia.ru reported on 8 April. This outcome was expected when President Saparmurat Niyazov signed a decree in February prohibiting the purchase of foreign currency at subsidized rates to finance private study abroad.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.