News Digest
WORLD BANK TURNS DOWN UZBEK REQUEST TO FUND RIVER-DIVERSION PROJECT
By empty (8/17/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The World Bank will not provide funds toward the cost of reviving the grandiose project first unveiled in the 1980s to divert two Siberian rivers southward to provide water for Central Asia, according to World Bank representative in Tashkent David Pears. The project was shelved in the early 1990s shortly after preparatory work got under way; Uzbek scientists have recently suggested reviving it. Pears, however, argued that Uzbekistan should make more effective use of the water resources currently at its disposal.U.S. Senate approves military cooperation program with Armenia
By empty (8/13/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The U.S. Senate has approved the program of military cooperation with Armenia for 2003, Armenia's Defense Minister Serge Sarkissian informed.TURKISH CITIZENS ACCUSED OF SPREADING RADICAL ISLAM IN BASHKORTOSTAN
By empty (8/13/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Law enforcement officials in Bashkortostan issued a warrant on 9 August seeking the deportation of three Turkish citizens from the Russian Federation for taking "actions contrary to Russia's national interests," such as allegedly teaching a radical version of Islam, RFE/RL's Kazan bureau reported on 12 August. The three Turks, Caliskan Seydi and two associates who were not named, are reportedly followers of the radical Suleymanji and Nurdjular Islamic sects, which are banned in Turkey. Seydi began his activities in Oktyabrskii, where he opened up a boarding school in September 2001.ARMENIAN PRESIDENT CONGRATULATES KARABAKH COLLEAGUE ON HIS RE ELECTION
By empty (8/13/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Robert Kocharian sent congratulations on 12 August to his successor as president of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Arkadii Ghukasian, who won re-election for a second term the previous day, RFE/RL's Armenian Service reported. Also on 12 August, retired U.S.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.