News Digest
OSCE OFFICIAL VOICES OPTIMISM ON KAZAKH BID FOR CHAIRMANSHIP
By empty (3/27/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
OSCE Chairman in Office and Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht said on March 27 during a meeting with President Nazarbaev in Astana that Kazakhstan has the best chance of any Central Asian country to chair the OSCE. Noting that Kazakhstan hopes to chair the OSCE in 2009, De Gucht said, \"For the OSCE, it\'s very important that it be headed by a country located to the east of Vienna. We feel that Kazakhstan is the worthiest candidate for the [chairmanship] post in the OSCE in Central Asia.ABKHAZ AUTHORITIES RELEASE DETAINED GEORGIAN FILM-MAKERS
By empty (3/25/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Following talks between Irakli Alasania, President Saakashvili\'s adviser for Abkhazia, and Sergei Bagapsh, president of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia, three Georgians detained by the Abkhaz authorities on suspicion of espionage were handed back on March 25 to representatives of the Tbilisi-based Abkhaz government in exile. The three Georgians, who were arrested while filming churches and other monuments in Abkhazia, were handed over at a bridge over the Inguri River that marks the border between Abkhazia and the rest of Georgia. The three Georgians were arrested on March 4 and remanded to three months\' pre-trial detention.KAZAKH DEMOCRACY COMMISSION MEETS
By empty (3/24/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev chaired the first meeting of a new democratization commission in Astana on March 24, \"Kazakhstan Today\" reported. The commission is charged with developing a democratization program for 2006-2011. In his remarks, Nazarbaev noted, \"I don\'t rule out that it may be necessary to conduct a constitutional reform as well.KYRGYZSTAN REMEMBERS REVOLUTION
By empty (3/24/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
One year after the uprising which drove the Kyrgyz president from power, the new government of this Central Asian republic has been celebrating. A public holiday has been declared with a military parade and other festivities in the capital, Bishkek. But many people say the new leaders have not fulfilled promises to fight corruption and rebuild the economy.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.