News Digest
IRAN-ARMENIA GAS PIPELINE TO BECOME OPERATIONAL BY DECEMBER
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A senior Iranian oil ministry official said Wednesday evening in Yerevan that Iran-Armenia gas pipeline will become operational by year-end. The announcement was made by Iran\'s Deputy Oil Minister for International Affairs Hadi Nejad-Hosseinian in a meeting with Armenian Energy Minister Armen Movsisyan. Nejad-Hosseinian, heading a delegation of experts from oil, energy and foreign affairs ministries arrived in Yerevan yesterday.170 MILITANTS NEUTRALIZED IN INGUSHETIA SINCE JUNE 2004
By empty (8/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
More than 170 militants involved in the June 2004 raid on Ingushetia have been neutralized, the republic\'s interior chief Beslan Khamkhoyev told reporters in Nazran on Thursday. \"More than 250 participants in the attack have been identified since it took place in June 2004. Ninety militants were killed in special operations, more than 80 were arrested, 34 were sentenced, and 30 remain at large.KYRGYZSTAN INSISTS THAT FREEDOM HOUSE PAY BACK TAXES.
By empty (8/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Taalaibek Tatkulov, deputy head of Kyrgyzstan\'s Social Fund, which is responsible for coordinating tax payments that fund social services, told a news conference in Bishkek on August 30 that his agency is in talks with U.S.-based NGO Freedom House about the payment of back taxes the fund says it is owed.SOUTH KOREA JOINS UZBEK GAS CONSORTIUM
By empty (8/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
South Korea and Uzbekistan have signed a production sharing agreement that gives South Korea\'s state-run Korea National Oil Corp. (KNOC) a 20-percent stake in an international consortium to develop gas resources on the Aral Sea, Yonhap reported on August 30. Other members are state-owned oil and gas company Uzbekneftegaz, Russia\'s LUKoil Overseas, Malaysia\'s Petronas, and China National Petroleum Corporation.Visit also
Staff Publications
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.