News Digest
DETAILS OF GEORGIAN REPATRIATION TO ABKHAZIA DIVULGED
By empty (3/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In his regular Monday radio address on 10 March, Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze provided new details of the agreement he reached during talks in Sochi with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Abkhaz Prime Minister Gennadii Gagulia on the return of Georgian displaced persons to Abkhazia\'s southernmost Gali Raion. Shevardnadze estimated that some 45,000 displaced persons will return to Gali but did not specify within what time frame. Nor is it clear whether rail communication between Sochi and Tbilisi will be resumed as soon as the repatriation process begins or only after it is successfully completed.BIN LADEN \'SLIPS AWAY\'
By empty (3/9/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The al-Qaeda leader was in the southern province of Nimroz just days before US forces launched an operation in nearby Helmand Province, Naseer Ahmed Roohi told Reuters news agency. \"Bin Laden, along with a few companions, shifted to an unknown area,\" he said, quoting \"reliable sources\". Mr Roohi said the al-Qaeda leader, who is suspected of masterminding the 11 September attacks on the US, had been in the Siakoh mountain range - which straddles Nimroz and Helmand - as well as Pakistan\'s Baluchistan Province.TAJIKISTAN LIVES ON INCOME FROM LABOR MIGRANTS, SAYS GOVERNMENT ECONOMIST
By empty (3/9/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Hojimahmad Umarov, a department head in the Economic Research Institute of the Tajik Economics and Trade Ministry, says that Tajikistan receives $40 million to $70 million per month from labor migrants who have left the country in search of work. Most of the labor migrants from Tajikistan go to Russia. Umarov was quoted as saying that such earnings are the reason there has been no mass hunger in the country and that without labor migration, it would be \"impossible to ensure the material conditions necessary for the survival of the Tajik population.FOUR PARTIES DENIED RE-REGISTRATION IN KAZAKHSTAN
By empty (3/7/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Kazakh Justice Ministry has refused to re-register four political parties under the controversial law on political parties that was adopted in 2002, the Almaty newspaper \"Vremya\" on 6 March. The four small parties that were denied re-registration are Yel Dana, Alash, the Party of Fellow Countrymen, and the Patriots\' Party of Kazakhstan. The law on parties raised the minimum number of members a political party must have to register from 3,000 to 50,000.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.