News Digest
RUSSIA INVITES GEORGIA TO HELP RESTORE RAILROAD TO ARMENIA
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Viktor Khristenko, Russian Deputy Prime Minister, has invited Georgia to begin joint efforts to restore a railroad running from Russia through Georgian territory to Armenia. Khristenko made this proposal while meeting with Chair of the Georgian parliament Nino Burjanadze in Moscow on Friday. The Georgian speaker conveyed the concerns and anger felt by her country\'s leadership over the opening of railroad communications between the Russian resort town of Sochi and Abkhazia\'s Sukhumi.RUSSIAN DELEGATION ARRIVES IN KYRGYZSTAN TO DISCUSS AIR BASE
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A Russian delegation arrived in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday to discuss setting up an air base in the Central Asian state, which emerged as a strategic partner in the U.S. \"war on terrorism\".SEVERAL SLAIN IN AFGHAN ATTACK
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Several men have been killed in a gun battle in eastern Afghanistan, after a police vehicle escorting a United Nations convoy came under fire. Gunmen attacked a convoy from the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, as it was travelling through Nangarhar province, about 40 kilometres (25 miles) west of Jalalabad. Two policemen were killed when the first shots were fired.FIERCE BATTLE RAGES IN AFGHANISTAN
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American and coalition forces have been battling Afghan rebels in the south of the country, close to the border with Pakistan. American war planes have bombed rebel fighters in the mountainous region near the town of Spin Boldak, in what US military officials say is the largest-scale fighting for nine months. Some 200 US special forces troops are engaged in the mountain battle and more are on their way, US Army spokesman Major Robert Hepner told the Associated Press.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.