News Digest
NO INSOLUBLE PROBLEMS IN UZBEK-RUSSIAN RELATIONS, UZBEK PRESIDENT SAID
By empty (12/15/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Russian presence in Uzbekistan has not been interrupted, said on Thursday (12 December) Uzbek President Islam Karimov in an interview with ITAR-TASS on the sidelines of a session of the Uzbek parliament. "Russia has been present here for 150 years. Russia's role and importance is great in the region.FIRST U.S.-TRAINED GEORGIAN COMMANDO BATTALION GRADUATES
By empty (12/16/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The first 558 Georgian commandos trained by U.S. instructors within the parameters of the U.FSB DIRECTOR DETAILS U.S. SPYING IN RUSSIA
By empty (12/16/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Speaking to the heads of Russia's main television channels and news agencies, Nikolai Patrushev said that his agency uncovered a U.S. intelligence operation in 2002 and arrested two Russian citizens on suspicion of gathering secret military information, ORT and other news agencies reported on 16 December.IMPRISONED CHECHEN FIELD COMMANDER DIES MYSTERIOUSLY
By empty (12/16/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Salman Raduev, one of the most notorious Chechen field commanders, died suddenly on 14 December in a labor camp in Perm Oblast from "internal bleeding of uncertain origin" after a one-week hospitalization, ORT and other Russian news agencies reported. Raduev, 35, was captured in Chechnya by the Federal Security Service (FSB) in 2000 and sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of terrorism, including 1996 raids on Kyzlyar and Pervomaiskoe, during which several dozen civilians were killed.Deputy Justice Minister Yurii Kalinin said an autopsy revealed "no evidence of violence.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.