News Digest
KAZAKH PRESIDENT ADDRESSES PARLIAMENT
By empty (9/2/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Nursultan Nazarbaev addressed the opening session of both chambers of the legislature on 2 September. For the first time since Kazakhstan became an independent state in late 1991, he delivered that address in Kazakh rather than in Russian; simultaneous translation was provided for legislators who do not speak the state language. Nazarbaev criticized deputies for failing during their last session to discuss seven of a total of 15 draft bills he had singled out as of particular importance.GEORGIAN PRESIDENT SAYS SITUATION IN PANKISI UNDER CONTROL
By empty (9/2/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Eduard Shevardnadze said on 2 September during his traditional Monday radio address that the situation in the Pankisi Gorge is under control. He added that all but a "few dozen" armed Chechen and Arab militants previously encamped there have already left. Some 1,000 Georgian Interior Ministry troops entered the gorge on 25 August to launch an anticrime and antiterrorist operation, which has already yielded several arrests.GEORGIAN OFFICIALS SAY THEY HAVE EVIDENCE OF RUSSIAN AIR RAID
By empty (8/30/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Fragments of the bombs dropped on the Pankisi Gorge on 23 August bear Russian markings, Georgian Deputy National Security Minister Lasha Natsvlishvili said in Tbilisi on 30 August. Georgian Intelligence Service head Avtandil Ioseliani for his part said the same day that Tbilisi will make that evidence available to any interested party. He also said he believes the Russian aircraft that flew the air raid took off from Armavir or Mozdok.2RUSSIAN BORDER GUARD UNIT COMES UNDER FIRE NEAR GEORGIAN BORDER
By empty (8/28/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At around 1800 Moscow time on Tuesday unknown gunmen opened fire at a Russian frontier guard unit. The incident occurred in the vicinity of the Kirigo pass, near the Georgian border. Nobody was hurt in the attack.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.