News Digest
ARMENIA RAISES PENSIONS
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The Armenian government approved on 12 September a 13 percent increase in state pensions, effective 1 October, Noyan Tapan and RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported. The average pension will rise from 5,400 to 6,100 drams ($11), which, however, is still far below the unofficial subsistence level of $40. (RFE/RL).U.S. SANCTIONS RUSSIAN FIRMS FOR ALLEGED TIES WITH TERRORISM
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The U.S. State Department has announced the imposition of economic sanctions against three Russian state enterprises that are allegedly producing military supplies for states that the United States claims support international terrorism.RUSSIA REJECTS 'ILLEGITIMATE' U.S. SANCTIONS ON WEAPONS FIRMS
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Deputy Foreign Minister Boris Malakhov said that he had handed to U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs Bolton a note of protest concerning U.GEORGIAN PRESIDENT RESPONDS TO RUSSIAN COUNTERPART
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On 13 September President Shevardnadze formally responded to President Putin's 11 September statement warning that Russia may resort to unilateral military intervention if Georgia fails to take resolute action to neutralize "international terrorists" in the Pankisi Gorge. Shevardnadze expressed his readiness to discuss with Putin personally "all outstanding issues that are preventing closer ties" between Russia and Georgia. Shevardnadze expressed optimism that the Pankisi operation could be concluded in approximately three weeks; observers suggest he and Putin may meet face to face to discuss the Pankisi problem on the sidelines of the CIS summit to be held in Chisinau on 7 October.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.