News Digest
NEARLY 200 COFFINS SENT TO TAJIKISTAN FROM RUSSIA IN FIRST HALF 2006
By empty (7/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The bodies of 190 Tajik citizens were sent from Russia in the first six months of 2006, according to Interior Ministry data. The cause of death varied, with 69 killed in accidents, an equal number dying from disease, four committed suicide, and eight were killed in traffic accidents. The northern province of Sughd received the largest number of dead at 85.BRITISH GOLD COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE SHOT IN KYRGYZSTAN
By empty (7/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Sean Daley, a British citizen representing the interests of Britain\'s Oxus Gold in the latter\'s dispute with the Kyrgyz government, was hospitalized after suffering a gunshot wound in an attack in Bishkek on the night of July 6. Doctors in Bishkek told akipress.org on July 8 that Daley was in serious condition after surgery to remove a kidney.FOUR CIVILIANS KILLED, TWO WOUNDED IN ATTACK ON CAR IN CHECHNYA
By empty (7/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Four people were killed and two others seriously wounded in an attack on a privately-owned jeep in Chechnya, a local law enforcement source told Interfax Saturday. \"Unidentified people fired small arms at an UAZ car on a dirt road between the villages of Dubovskaya and Kargalinovskaya in the Shelkovskaya district. Four people died of wounds and two others were taken to the hospital in serious condition,\" the source said.KYRGYZ PRESIDENT VISITS KAZAKHSTAN
By empty (7/7/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev held talks with Kazakh President Nazarbaev in Astana on July 4. Their discussion reportedly focused on economic cooperation. Nazarbaev told a joint news conference after the meeting, \"I am always directing Kazakh businesses toward investing money in your country,\" RFE/RL\'s Kazakh Service reported.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.