News Digest
RUSSIA WILLING TO GIVE WATER TO CENTRAL ASIA
By empty (3/25/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In the wake of the World Water Forum that ended in Kyoto, Japan, on 23 March, First Deputy Natural Resources Minister Nikolai Tarasov told journalists that Russia is willing to provide water to Central Asia, but no Central Asian countries have made formal requests for such assistance. One session of the international water conference was devoted to the Aral Sea. Uzbekistan\'s Rim Giniyatullin of the International Fund to Save the Aral said diverting just 5 percent of the water from Siberian rivers to the sea would prevent its complete disappearance.PUTIN SAYS CHECHEN REFERENDUM HAS REMOVED THREAT TO RUSSIA\'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY
By empty (3/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Meeting on 24 March with Russian government ministers, President Putin said the previous day\'s referendum in Chechnya \"resolved the last serious problem relating to Russia\'s territorial integrity,\" Russian media reported. According to official data, Chechen voters overwhelmingly endorsed a new draft constitution that defines Chechnya as an integral part of the Russian Federation. Putin instructed ministers to speed up work connected with reconstruction in Chechnya.BUSH COMPLAINS TO PUTIN ABOUT ALLEGED MILITARY TRANSFERS TO IRAQ
By empty (3/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
U.S. President George W.WASHINGTON ACCUSES RUSSIA OF ILLEGAL MILITARY SALES TO IRAQ
By empty (3/24/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russia\'s Ambassador to the United States Yurii Ushakov was summoned on 24 March to the U.S. State Department to receive an official protest alleging that Russia allowed illegal transfers of military equipment to Iraq in violation of UN-imposed economic sanctions.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.