News Digest
PUTIN DEPLORES U.S. RESORT TO \'LAW OF THE FIST\' IN IRAQ
By empty (3/20/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In a statement responding to the onset of U.S.-led military operations against the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, President Vladimir Putin said on 20 March that Washington has made \"a big political mistake,\" and insisted on the quickest possible cessation of hostilities.CHECHEN FOREIGN MINISTER UNVEILS NEW PEACE PROPOSAL
By empty (3/20/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Speaking in Washington on 18 March, Chechen Foreign Minister Ilyas Akhmadov presented a new peace plan under which Chechnya would enjoy what he termed \"conditional independence,\" chechenpress.com reported. It is not clear to what extent that status corresponds to that proposed last year by former Russian parliament speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov.UNOFFICIAL CENSORSHIP ON WAR REPORTING INSTITUTED IN UZBEKISTAN
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Unofficial censorship has been restored in Uzbekistan in response to the military operation in Iraq and only the viewpoint of the Uzbek government, which fully supports the war, can be expressed in the media. Neither the Russian nor the Western European points of view are being reported in Uzbekistan. The report, quoting an anonymous source, said that Foreign Minister Sodyk Safaev summoned the editors of major media outlets and asked them not to report on the war from a pro-Russian point of view, but exclusively from the U.U.S. PRESIDENT THANKS AZERBAIJAN, GEORGIA FOR SUPPORT OF ANTITERRORISM CAMPAIGN
By empty (3/20/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In separate letters to Heidar Aliev and Eduard Shevardnadze, U.S. President George W.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.