News Digest
CHECHEN ENVOY AND REFUGEES CLEARED FOR ENTRY TO RUSSIA
By empty (7/23/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen parliamentary deputy Magomed Khambiyev and two Chechen refugees who have returned to Russia from Azerbaijan have left the Derbent police department and proceeded to Chechnya. Following the intervention by commanders of the regional operations headquarters and of the combined force in the North Caucasus, and by Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, the two refugees, who were returning with me to Russia from Azerbaijan were cleared,\" Khambiyev told Interfax by phone on Sunday. Khambiyev said he had been entrusted \"to hold talks with representatives of the Chechen communities in Azerbaijan, Turkey and other countries, and to persuade them to come back to Russia.CIS PRESIDENT DISCUSS COMMONWEALTH REFORMS
By empty (7/22/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Presidents of CIS countries discussed the reform of the Commonwealth at their informal summit in Moscow on Saturday. After the meeting, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev told journalists, “Basing on the experts’ analysis of the 15-year-long activity of the CIS I exposed my vision and a new programme of the CIS reform.” “It is necessary to take such decisions, which will meet the interests of everyone.NO STATE IN CIS MUST FEEL ITS INTERESTS INFRINGED - NAZARBAYEV
By empty (7/22/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed to discuss ways to develop the CIS for no one state to feel its interests are infringed. Nazarbayev said he sent out the draft of the proposals for discussion through the embassies on Friday.\" I hope you received it and could look over it,\" he said.DUDAYEV\'S WIDOW LIKELY TO BE GRANTED ESTONIAN CITIZENSHIP
By empty (7/21/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Estonian Population Ministry secretariat has received an application for citizenship from Alla Dudayeva, the widow of Dzhokhar Dudayev, the former president of so- called Ichkeria. An identical application came from Alla Dudayeva\'s younger son, Tegi Dudayev, 23, the secretariat told Interfax on Friday. Aarne Veedla, an advisor to the population minister, told Interfax Thursday that the Estonian government was prepared to consider granting citizenship to Dudayeva and other family members.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.