News Digest
PUTIN WANTS TO EXPAND KYRGYZSTAN BASE
By empty (4/24/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Putin said in Moscow on April 24 in conjunction with the visit of Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev that Russia intends to improve the air base at Kant in the Central Asian republic. He noted that the base assists \"collective rapid deployment forces and contributes to ensuring security and stability, not only in Kyrgyzstan but also in the Central Asian region as a whole.\" He called the continuing improvement of Kant \"one of our priorities.GLOBAL TAX LEADERSHIP AWARD PRESENTED TO KAZAKHSTAN
By empty (4/19/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Washington-based International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC) presented its first Global Tax Leadership Award to Kazakhstan on April 10. \"Kazakhstan\'s bold step in being the first CIS country to establish a unified tax code demonstrated unparalleled global tax leadership in 1995 and was followed by states throughout the CIS and eastern and central Europe,\" said Professor Charles E. McLure, Jr.BP SAYS BAKU-CEYHAN PIPELINE COST RISES 30 PCT
By empty (4/19/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The cost of the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline has risen to $3.9 billion, 30 percent above the original estimate of $2.95 billion, the head of BP Plc in Azerbaijan said on Wednesday.NO ROOM FOR ISLAMIST REVOLUTION IN AZERBAIJAN – OFFICIAL
By empty (4/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Azerbaijani authorities keep all illegal radical religious groups under control and rule out the possibility that they could make an Islamic revolution in the country, State Committee for Religious Organizations\' Affairs Chairman Rafiq Aliyev said at a meeting with a U.S. diplomatic official in Baku on Tuesday.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.