News Digest
KAZAKH POLICE STORM ILLEGAL DEVELOPMENT OUTSIDE ALMATY, DOZENS INJURED
By empty (7/15/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Nearly 40 people were injured in Almaty on July 14 in clashes between police and the residents of Shanyrak -- a settlement outside Almaty that the authorities have deemed illegal -- when at least 150 police attempted to enforce a court order for the demolition of 114 houses, Channel 31 and news agencies reported. Medical authorities in Almaty said 37 people sought treatment after the clash, including a policeman with burns over 70 percent of his body. Residents fought off police with stones and Molotov cocktails.KYRGYZSTAN, U.S. REACH NEW BASE AGREEMENT
By empty (7/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyz and U.S. negotiators reached a deal on July 14 for a U.NORTH CAUCASUS GROUPS APPEAL TO GEORGIA
By empty (7/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
National movements representing the Cherkess, Russian, Karachai, Abazin, Nogai, and Ossetian communities in the Karachayevo-Cherkessia Republic adopted a joint appeal to the Georgian leadership not to undertake any military action against the breakaway Republic of South Ossetia. The groups also appealed to the international community to exert pressure on the Georgian leadership. North Ossetian President Mamsurov warned on July 15 that in the event of a new aggression by Georgia against South Ossetia, volunteers from North Ossetia would flock to South Ossetia to help their co-ethnics there.DAGHESTAN\'S INTERIOR MINISTRY REJECTS CHECHEN ALLEGATIONS
By empty (7/14/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Daghestan\'s Interior Ministry issued a statement on July 14 rejecting as untrue Chechen Prime Minister Kadyrov\'s claim that most of the 13 militants killed during fighting the previous day in Mesketi in southeastern Chechnya close to the border with Daghestan were Avars dispatched to Chechnya to commit acts of terrorism there. The Daghestan Interior Ministry claimed that six of those killed were ethnic Chechens from Daghestan\'s Khasavyurt and Novo-Lak districts. It said five more militants were apprehended, all of them aged between 14-19.Visit also
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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.