News Digest
SAAKASHVILI\'S REFUSAL TO ATTEND SUMMIT PROOF HE INTENDS TO FUEL TENSIONS – KOSACHYOV
By empty (7/21/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee, has said that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili\'s refusal attend the informal CIS summit starting on Friday in Moscow shows Tbilisi\'s intention to let tensions in Russian- Georgian relations further escalate. \"The participation in the summit offers possibilities to state the positions dear to Tbilisi both in formal and informal settings and to be heard. However, Saakashvili chose to pass over the opportunity, which proves that Georgia has a stake in a confrontation with Russia, which may lay the basis for a military resolution of the Georgian-South Ossetian and Georgian-Abkhaz conflicts,\" he told journalists.UZBEKISTAN REPORTS RETURN OF 12 ANDIJON REFUGEES
By empty (7/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Twelve Uzbek refugees who fled after violence in Andijon in 2005 and received asylum in the United States have returned to Uzbekistan, Press-uz.info reported on July 17, citing a source in the Uzbek Foreign Ministry. The source said the refugees appealed to the Uzbek government for help in returning home.TAJIKISTAN ANNOUNCES ARREST OF 10 IMU MEMBERS
By empty (7/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
.FSB HEAD ISSUES ULTIMATUM TO CHECHEN RESISTANCE
By empty (7/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Speaking in the name of the National Antiterrorism Center, Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Nikolai Patrushev called upon Chechen resistance fighters on July 15 to lay down their arms and begin talks with the federal or pro-Moscow Chechen authorities. He pledged that those who do surrender will be guaranteed \"a fair and objective appraisal\" of their activities as members of \"illegal armed formations.\" Patrushev claimed that the majority of resistance fighters have already capitulated, and that some have joined the Chechen police force while others have been elected to the pro-Moscow Chechen parliament.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.