News Digest
COURT CLEARS KYRGYZ OFFICIALS ON CASH HANDOVER TO EX-PRESIDENT
By empty (4/27/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A court in Bishkek ruled on April 26 to acquit former National Bank head Ulan Sarbanov, former Accounting Chamber Chairman Medet Sadyrkulov, former Finance Minister Sultan Mederov, and former Central Treasury Director Anarbek Satybaldiev on charges that they illegally transferred $420,000 from the state budget to then President Askar Akaev in December 1999. The judge said that their actions were not criminal. The defendants had argued that they gave the money to the president legally to cover the costs of a military operation against an extremist incursion, ferghana.LEADERS OF ABKHAZIA, SOUTH OSSETIA TO MEET
By empty (4/27/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The presidents of the Georgian separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are due to meet on Friday to explore ways of settling their conflicts with Georgia, the Abkhaz president\'s office told Interfax. South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity arrived on Thursday evening in the Abkhaz capital of Sukhumi, the venue of the meeting. A delegation from the Moldovan breakaway region of Transdniestria is due in Abkhazia within days.DECISIONS ON IRAN MUST BE COORDINATED - PUTIN
By empty (4/27/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Coordinated decisions must be made on the Iranian nuclear issue, President Vladimir Putin said. \"We will cooperate with all the partners. It would be premature to speculate on what decisions we could make together.FSB: GROUP OF WOULD-BE BOMBERS CRUSHED IN NORTH CAUCASUS
By empty (4/27/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
All members of a militant group believed to have been planning a bomb attack were destroyed in an armed clash in a village in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Karachayevo-Cherkesia on Thursday by the Federal Security Service (FSB) and police forces, the FSB said. The alleged bombing was to be carried out in Karachayevo-Cherkesia on May 9, a Russian public holiday commemorating the Soviet victory over the Nazis during World War II, the FSB said in a release. \"Due to fierce armed resistance, all members of the group were liquidated,\" the release 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.