News Digest
KAZAKHSTAN SIGNS PIPELINE ACCORD
By empty (6/16/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan moved to reduce its dependency on Russia on Friday, signing a US-backed agreement to supply oil for a key Caspian-Mediterranean pipeline that will provide an alternative energy source for Europe. The agreement signed by Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of Kazakhstan, and Ilham Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan, resolves one of the outstanding issues to be settled before a long sought-after visit to the White House by Mr Nazarbayev, analysts said. A spokesman for the Kazakh embassy in Washington said the two sides were working on a date for the visit, expected in the coming months.ATTACK KILLS AFGHAN POLICE CHIEF
By empty (5/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A police chief in the southern Afghan province of Zabul has been killed in a suspected Taleban attack. Ghulam Rhasoul was killed when his vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade near the city of Qalat, a local official told the AP news agency. At least three other people travelling with him are said to have been hurt.FORMER CHECHEN PRESIDENTIAL ENVOY NAMED FOREIGN MINISTER
By empty (5/30/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Acting Chechen President and resistance commander Abdul-Khalim Sadullayev on May 27 named Akhmed Zakayev as foreign minister in the underground government of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria. Zakayev, who was granted asylum in London several years ago, previously served as special envoy to Sadullayev\'s predecessor, Aslan Maskhadov. Sadullayev dismissed him early this year from the post of minister of culture following an internet polemic between Zakayev and radical Chechen ideologist Movladi Udugov.RUSSIA CONCERNED ABOUT GEORGIAN DEPLOYMENT IN CONFLICT ZONE
By empty (5/30/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia will bear full responsibility for a possible flaring of tensions in response to any of its decision to deploy more security forces in the conflict zone in the breakaway province of South Ossetia without permission, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin told journalists on Tuesday. \"Georgian special units entered the Georgian [South] Ossetian conflict zone on May 27,\" he said. \"The Foreign Ministry of Russia is concerned about this situation and warns that Georgian will bear full responsibility for any similar measures aimed at stirring tensions in the conflict zone,\" the spokesman said.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.