News Digest
SIX RUSSIAN PEACEKEEPERS KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENT IN ABKHAZIA
By empty (5/20/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Updated reports indicate that six Russian peacekeepers were killed in a road accident in Abkhazia\'s Gali district, aide to the Russian Ground Forces commander Col. Igor Konashenkov told Interfax on Saturday. \"An armored personnel carrier moving toward the Kodori Gorge in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone for engineering reconnaissance on Saturday overturned near Gali, killing six servicemen from the Russian peacekeeping contingent,\" Konashenkov said.GEORGIAN MILITARY POLICE DETAIN HIGH-RANKING RUSSIAN MILITARY OFFICIALS
By empty (5/19/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian military police detained Russian Deputy Ground Forces Commander Lt. Gen. Valery Yevnevich and a group of officers from the main command of the Russian Ground Forces near the city of Gori on Friday.INTERPOL PLACES FORMER AJARIAN LEADER ON WANTED LIST
By empty (5/19/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Former leader of the Ajarian autonomy Aslan Abashidze has been placed on Interpol\'s wanted list. The Interpol website says that he is wanted for illegal possession of firearms, fraud, organized crime, terrorism and unlawful imprisonment. (Interfax).KAZAKH MINISTER OUTLINES PIPELINE PROSPECTS, DIFFICULTIES
By empty (5/19/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakh Foreign Minister Qasymzhomart Toqaev told Interfax in Berlin on May 19 that a gas pipeline across the Caspian Sea may be built only with the agreement of all five Caspian littoral states.\" Despite the general appeal of this project, it is quite difficult in technical terms,\" Toqaev said. \"Especially considering that it requires the laying of a gas pipeline along the Caspian seafloor, for which the consent of all Caspian states is needed.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.