News Digest
KAZAKHSTAN\'S ONLY NUCLEAR POWER PLANT GOES BANKRUPT
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The only nuclear power plant in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan was declared bankrupt Thursday by a court after accumulating unbearable debts. The Mangyishlak plant in western Kazakhstan was driven into the red because of reduced demand for energy and low prices enforced by local anti-monopoly authorities there, said Valikhan Asambayev, who was appointed to bring the plant back to profitability. The plant has been struggling in recent years and in February 1999 was ordered to restructure, having accumulated a debt of 3.FORMER ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER BARRED FROM PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
By empty (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Central Election Commission (CEC) voted on 15 January by seven in favor with two abstentions not to register U.S.-born former Foreign Minister Raffi Hovannisian as a candidate for the 19 February presidential election, RFE/RL\'s Yerevan bureau reported.U.S. CONGRESS SLAMS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA
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A 14 January joint resolution of the U.S. Congress registers concern at human rights violations -- including arbitrary arrests, restrictions on the media and religious freedom, and the use of torture -- by the governments of the five Central Asian states.UN STEPS UP HUNT FOR AL-QAEDA
By empty (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to extend and improve efforts to control the remnants of Afghanistan\'s former Taleban government and the al-Qaeda network of Osama Bin Laden. The resolution aims to tighten monitoring procedures and keep sanctions in place. It indicates the seriousness the UN attaches to the potential threat from these organisations - despite the defeat of the Taleban in Afghanistan and the ongoing action against al-Qaeda.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.