News Digest
KYRGYZ PRESIDENT MEETS WITH OPPOSITION POLITICIANS, VISITS AKSY
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Askar Akaev met in Bishkek on 9 August with opposition parliament deputies Adaham Madumarov and Omurbek Tekebaev and with People's Party Chairman Melis Eshimkanov and Emil Aliev, a leading member of the Ar-Namys Party. No details of the talks were disclosed. On 10 August, accompanied by Security Council Secretary Misir Ashyrkulov, Akaev traveled to Aksy Raion, the scene of violent clashes between police and demonstrators in March.Georgia accused Russian military of shooting at helicopter in Kodori gorge
By empty (8/12/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A Georgian transport helicopter came under fire in Kodori Gorge on Monday. The crew was not hurt. "The fire was opened by Russian and Abkhaz armed formations," presidential envoy in the gorge Emzar Kvitsiani has told the press.TURKMEN OPPOSITION STAGES PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS
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The National Democratic Movement of Turkmenistan organized six separate protests in various districts of Ashgabat on 11 August against the policies of President Saparmurat Niyazov, RFE/RL's Turkmen Service reported on 11 and 12 August. The movement's activists distributed leaflets in the capital early on 11 August appealing to the population to struggle against Niyazov's regime and affirming its readiness to bring about the "normalization" of the political situation in the country. Police tried but failed to prevent the gatherings.Russian Defense Minister suggested establishing joint defense forces
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The Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov suggeted while attending maneuvres on the Caspian Sea to establish joint defense force in the Caspian Sea for combatting terrorism. The minister did not exclude that other Caspian littoral states could join the forces along Russia and Kazakhstan. Ivanov was in Kaspiisk, Dagestan, to observe large-scale naval maneuvers in the Caspian waters.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.