News Digest
STRAY RUSSIAN MISSILE EXPLODES ON KAZAKH TERRITORY
By empty (4/26/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A missile fired on 24 April by a Russian strategic bomber during air exercises over Astrakhan fell and exploded in a sparsely populated region of western Kazakhstan but caused no damage or injuries, Russian media reported. A joint task force will be formed to investigate the incident, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov told journalists in Moscow on 26 April. (Interfax).UZBEK, IRANIAN PRESIDENTS DISCUSS AFGHANISTAN
By empty (4/28/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on 28 April ended a three-day visit to Uzbekistan during which he and his Uzbek counterpart Islam Karimov discussed the impact on their respective countries and Central Asia in general of the war in Afghanistan and the U.S. military presence in the region, which Khatami described as \"humiliating\" and a source of concern to Tehran.KAZAKH MILITARY TO PARTICIPATE IN OPERATION \'ENDURING FREEDOM\'
By empty (4/28/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A general and two other senior Kazakh military officers will join the U.S.-based coalition staff coordinating the antiterrorism operation \"Enduring Freedom\" in Afghanistan, Defense Minister Colonel General Mukhtar Altynbaev told journalists in Astana on 28 April following talks earlier that day between President Nursultan Nazarbaev and U.POLICE THWART UNSANCTIONED DEMONSTRATION IN AZERBAIJAN
By empty (4/29/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Police in Baku forcibly dispersed several hundred persons who attempted on 27 April to congregate on Azadlyg Square to participate in an unsanctioned demonstration. Several dozen people were wounded and 18 opposition activists arrested and charged with resisting the police. Some 80 people were detained by police during demonstrations the same day in Qazakh, Aghdash, Barda, Evlakh, Sabirabad, Beylagan, and Shamkir Raions.Visit also
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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.