News Digest
Georgia leader heads for lawless Pankisi Gorge
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PRIVATE Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, travelling to the lawless gorge which both Tbilisi and Washington say was bombed by Russian planes, accused those who ordered the attack of barbarism on Tuesday. The United States has rebuked Russia over the bombing in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge where Moscow says separatist rebels from its breakaway Chechnya province operate with impunity. Russia denies the cross-border bombing raid but the accusations are beginning to strain what have been unusually warm relations with the United States in recent months.Sukhumi claims Georgia is preparing for a new attack against Abkhazia
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PRIVATE The statement made by the Foreign Ministry of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia RIA Novosti received Tuesday says that Abkhazian authorities are appealing to the United Nations Organization and Russia to "undertake necessary measures to bring pressure on Georgia in order to prevent military actions." The document reads that "recently the situation in the Kodori Gorge and the adjacent northern part of Abkhazia has become more tense." According to Sukhumi, "the Georgian authorities' actions give grounds to assume that they are preparing new aggression against Abkhazia.Abkhazia opposes withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers
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The Prime Minister of Abkhazia, Anri Dzhergenia, has declared that the position of the Abkhazian leadership on the necessity of the Russian peacekeepers' presence in the Georgian - Abkhazian conflict zone has remained unchanged. Abkhazia is an unrecognised republic on the Black Sea coast which proclaimed its secession from Georgia ten years ago. Abkhazia has always been coming out against the withdrawal of the Russian peacekeepers from the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone, stated the Abkhazian Prime Minister on the phone to RIA Novosti on Tuesday.TURKMEN PRESIDENT NAMES NEW MINISTERS, AMBASSADOR
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At a government session on 23 August, Niyazov named Turkmenistan's former Ambassador to Germany Dortkuli Aydogyev as minister for the textile industry, replacing Djamal Goklenov, who will take up the post of adviser to the Turkmen Embassy in Moscow. Niyazov also appointed former Education Minister Annakurban Ashirov ambassador to Turkey. His replacement as minister is National Institute of Education Director Mameddurdy Sarykhanov.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.