News Digest
FORMER KYRGYZ PARLIAMENT SPEAKER SAYS \'TANDEM\' HAS OUTLIVED ITS USEFULNESS
By empty (5/24/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Former parliament speaker Omurbek Tekebaev said on May 23 that the \"tandem\" of President Kurmanbek Bakiev and Prime Minister Feliks Kulov has \"outlived its usefulness.\" Tekebaev said, \"The tandem, which was created for purposes of stabilization and the development of society, has not justified itself and has outlived its usefulness. That\'s why the country now faces the critical issue of clearly delineating the functions and duties of all branches of government.TALKS ONLY WAY TO SOLVE IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROBLEM – LAVROV
By empty (5/23/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Talks are the only possible way to solve the Iranian nuclear problem, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. \"Russia, China and the United States, jointly with the European Troika, have been working on proposals that would lead to a political, diplomatic way out of the situation surrounding the Iranian nuclear program. Qatar, I know, supports these efforts,\" Lavrov said at a news conference in Doha on Tuesday.ISOLATING IRAN WILL NULLIFY EFFORTS TO RESOLVE CRISIS – LAVROV
By empty (5/23/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The efforts deployed by the European Union Troika, Russia, the U.S. and China to settle the Iran nuclear problem will come to naught if Iran is isolated, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.TWO GEORGIAN CRIMINALS KILLED IN ATTACK ON OSSETIAN FAMILY
By empty (5/21/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
An Ossetian family was attacked in the village of Khelchua in South Ossetia overnight. Two criminals were killed in the incident. \"The two attackers, both of them Georgian citizens and residents of the neighboring village of Mereti, have a previous criminal record,\" Gela Zoziashvili, the Georgian president\'s deputy envoy in the Shida Kartli region, told Interfax on Sunday.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.