News Digest
GEORGIAN PRESIDENT SACKS FINANCE, TAX MINISTERS
By empty (5/2/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Shevardnadze dismissed Tax Minister Levan Dzneladze and Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli on 2 May after Georgia failed to meet its budget targets either for the first quarter of 2002 or in April. The Georgian parliament will now propose amalgamating the two ministries, to be headed by Anti-Corruption Council Chairman Mirian Gogiashvili. However, parliament Budget Committee head Roman Gotsiridze said on 2 May that the April budget shortfall was not the result of a shortfall in tax revenues, but of the Customs Department\'s failure to crack down on the smuggling of cigarettes and gasoline.U.S. OFFICER DEFINES U.S. MILITARY ROLE IN GEORGIA
By empty (5/2/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Army Colonel Scott Thein, one of the first group of U.S. military personnel to arrive in Tbilisi earlier this week within the parameters of the \"Train and Equip\" program, told journalists in Tbilisi on 2 May that he and his fellow instructors will conduct four stages of antiterrorist training for Georgian forces, after which they will return to the U.GEORGIAN PRESIDENT THANKS U.S. COUNTERPART FOR SUPPORT
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During a telephone conversation on 2 May, Eduard Shevardnadze thanked U.S. President George W.CENTRAL UZBEK REGION FACES TYPHOID OUTBREAK
By empty (5/3/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An outbreak of typhoid has hit Uzbekistan\'s central Dzhizak region, health officials said Friday. According to local hospital staff, 81 people have been admitted to the hospital in three days with the life-threatening infectious disease in the region\'s Pakhtakor town, 180 kilometers (110 miles) southwest of the capital Tashkent. But health and epidemiology officials in the region and Tashkent insisted the outbreak was much smaller.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.