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UZBEKISTAN TO REVIVE HALTED RAILWAY PROJECT TO BYPASS TURKMENISTAN
By empty (1/29/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbekistan has decided to revive a railway project that would link several southern districts and bypass Turkmenistan, a neighbor with whom relations have significantly worsened, railway officials said Wednesday. An Uzbek government decree issued last week ordered the construction of the Tashguzar-Boysun-Kumkurgan line be speeded up and finished in 2007. The line will link the three district centers with the country\'s main railway line connecting the capital Tashkent with other parts of the country.AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT MOVES TO CONFISCATE ILLEGALLY BUILT DACHAS
By empty (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Heidar Aliev has issued a decree in response to complaints from the population that villas built illegally on state-owned land on the Caspian Sea coast are obstructing public access to beaches. Aliev has tasked several government ministries and local authorities with confiscating such homes built within 130 meters of the shore and with determining whether to pay compensation to the owners. (Turan).SENIOR OFFICIALS CONDEMN REPORTED RUSSIAN ATTACK ON CHECHEN BUS
By empty (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District Viktor Kazantsev and Chechen administration head Akhmed-hadji Kadyrov on 15 January both condemned the reported attack by drunken Russian troops the previous day on a bus traveling between Grozny and Gudermes. The driver was reportedly killed and four passengers injured in the shooting. Chechen Prosecutor Vladimir Kravchenko and Gudermes administration head Akhmed Abastov told Interfax that they are unable to confirm that any such shooting incident took place.SENIOR OFFICIALS CONDEMN REPORTED RUSSIAN ATTACK ON CHECHEN BUS
By empty (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District Viktor Kazantsev and Chechen administration head Akhmed-hadji Kadyrov on 15 January both condemned the reported attack by drunken Russian troops the previous day on a bus traveling between Grozny and Gudermes. The driver was reportedly killed and four passengers injured in the shooting. Chechen Prosecutor Vladimir Kravchenko and Gudermes administration head Akhmed Abastov told Interfax that they are unable to confirm that any such shooting incident took place.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
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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.