News Digest
KAZAKH OPPOSITION SKEPTICAL ABOUT PROBE INTO HIGH-PROFILE KILLINGS
By empty (3/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A gathering organized by the Kazakh opposition in Almaty on Saturday has expressed its lack of confidence in the official findings of the investigation into the deaths of prominent politicians Zamanbek Nurkadilov and Altynbek Sarsenbaiuly and demanded that the investigation of the case be extended. The rally, which gathered over one thousand, was sanctioned by the Almaty city administration. \"We demand that the Interior Ministry reopen the investigation into the assassination of prominent statesman Zamanbek Nurkadilov,\" reads a resolution adopted at the rally, which was read by Tulegen Zhukeyev, an activist of the opposition bloc For a Fair Kazakhstan.TWENTY-TWO KILLED AT IRAN BORDER
By empty (3/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At least 22 people have been killed by gunmen near Iran\'s border with Afghanistan, official reports say. Many of those killed were government employees and the governor of the provincial capital, Zahedan, was seriously injured in the attack. Police Commander Gen Esmail Ahmadi- Moqaddam said the gunmen posed as police and closed the Zabol to Zahedan road in Sistan-Baluchistan Province.GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT WANTS TO SUE RUSSIA FOR CONFLICT DAMAGES
By empty (3/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Georgian parliament has adopted resolutions on setting up a state commission for the assessment of Georgian damages resultant from the Abkhaz and South Ossetian conflicts and announcing an international tender for a legal company to represent Georgia in the European Court of Human Rights in the damages case. Head of the parliamentary commission for reconstruction of the Georgian territorial integrity Shota Malashkhiya presented the draft resolutions at the parliamentary session on Thursday. The resolutions were adopted unanimously.BOMB GOES OFF ON RAILROAD IN INGUSHETIA NEAR THE TOWN OF KARABULAK
By empty (3/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A bomb went off on a railroad near the town of Karabulak in Ingushetia at around 2:00 Moscow time. The blast occurred as a locomotive pulling five-oil tank cars was moving on the railroad. The railway track was damaged in the blast but no one was hurt.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.