News Digest
KAZAKHSTAN SETS UP A NEW STATE-OWNED OIL COMPANY
By empty (5/4/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan has set up a national, wholly state-owned company to operate the country's trunk pipelines called Oil and Gas Transport(TNG). The government issued a resolution to set up the company on 2 May. The company will get the government's 100 per cent stake in KazTransOil and 50 per cent stake in Kazmortransflot, as well as state stakes in a number of companies earlier transferred to KazTransOil, including 100 per cent of KazTransGaz, 90 per cent of Aktyubinskneftesvyaz, 99 per cent of Munai-Impex, 90 per cent of KazTranSvyaz, 100 per cent of the Atyrau international airport and helicopter company Euro-Asia Air, and 3.Turkmen prosecutors identify suspects in presidential assassination attempt
By empty (12/4/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Three Russian citizens, who are ethnic Chechens, Ruslan Sadullayev, Amirbek Bishoyev, and Magambet Nuraliyev, were involved in an assassination attempt on Turkmen President Saparmurad Niyazov, said Turkmen Prosecutor General Kurbanbibi Atadzhanova. In addition, Turks Ekrem Celik, Sadi Celik, Omur Yekus, Mustafa Mesut Guler, Nejat Bairam, and Yilmaz Mehmet Ihsan; American of Moldovan origin Leonid Komarovsky, Armenian Aram Atanesian, and a number of Turkmen citizens are also responsible for the attack, the prosecutor said, speaking on Turkmen television. The main organizers of the terrorist attack, who were acting from abroad, are former Turkmen deputy prime minister and foreign minister Boris Shikhmuradov, former Turkmen deputy prime minister and Central Bank chairman Khudaiberdy Orazov, former first deputy Turkmen agriculture minister Saparmurad Yklymov, and former Turkmen ambassador to Turkey Nurmukhamet Khanamov, Atadzhanova said.GUNMEN KIDNAP LUKOIL VICE PRESIDENT'S FATHER
By empty (12/4/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Unidentified gunmen kidnapped the father of a LUKoil vice president from his home in Georgia, Georgian officials said Tuesday. The attackers abducted Sadi Sharifov on Sunday night in the village of Pankiani, about 80 kilometers southwest of Tbilisi, Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Paata Gomelauri said. Sharifov, 65, is the father of a LUKoil vice president, said Maya Musidze, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman.MPS SLAM GOVERNMENT FOR ENERGY CRISIS
By empty (12/5/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
PRIVATE Irakli Chubinishvili, chairman of the Parliamentary investigative commission on energy crisis reported to the Parliament today information regarding the reasons of energy crises in the country. In the report there were evidences proving that many high officials in the illegal activity and corruption in the energy sector that led to the crises. Irakli Chubinishvili stated that at least USD 1 billion is needed to rehabilitate the Georgian energy sector.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.