News Digest
28 October 2009 News Digest
By Alima Bissenova (10/28/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
UZBEKS TO STAY MEMBER OF CENTRAL ASIAN POWER GRID
14 October
Uzbekistan intends to remain a member of the Central Asian integrated energy system. Asia-Plus informatsionnoe agentsvto reported Tuesday that a source at the Ozbekenergo (Uzbek energy) state joint stock company speaking off the record said that the corporation had notified the relevant authorities in both Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan of its intention to discuss revising the terms for its provision of transmitting electricity to Kyrgyzstan through Uzbek territory. Speaking on condition of anonymity the Ozbekenergo source said, "We want to introduce payments for electricity transmission to Kyrgyzstan which earlier flowed free of charge.
14 October 2009 News Digest
By Alima Bissenova (10/15/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Foes say Saakashvili distorted war report 1 October Georgia's opposition rounded on President Mikheil Saakashvili after a damning report on last year's war with Russia, and one former ally accused him of distorting its findings to deceive the Georgian people. The Georgian government and the country's main television broadcasters said the independent report, commissioned by the European Union and released on September 30, pinned the blame for the five-day war on Russia. Opposition leader and former Saakashvili ally Nino Burjanadze said the government was concealing the report's key finding -- that Georgia began full-scale hostilities with an unjustifiable assault on the pro-Russian breakaway region of South Ossetia.
30 September 2009 News Digest
By Alima Bissenova (10/1/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
U.S. SEES TURKMENISTAN AS ENERGY LEADER
22 September
The U.
30 September 2009 News Digest
By Alima Bissenova (10/1/2009 issue of the CACI Analyst)
U.S. sees Turkmenistan as energy leader 22 September The U.
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