News Digest
MOSCOW-BAKU COOPERATION IMPORTANT FOR GEOPOLITICAL STABILITY - PUTIN
By empty (2/21/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
President Vladimir Putin said that positive relations between Russia and Azerbaijan are a factor of geopolitical stability in the Caucasus. \"We seek an find new and effective patterns of cooperation, and use more, fully bilateral and integration processes in the post-Soviet space,\" Putin said at a ceremony to kick off the Year of Azerbaijan in Russia at the Heydar Aliyev Palace in Baku. \"All of us are directly interested in preserving the common humanitarian space and in broadening cultural contacts, youth exchanges, and exchanges in science and education,\" Putin said.RUSSIAN TANKER FREED IN GEORGIA
By empty (2/20/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Russian tanker Rabiks-4 has been allowed to return to Russia after paying Georgia a fine of 50,000 lari, nearly $24,000, for violating navigation regulations in Georgia\'s territorial waters, a source in the Georgian state border guard department told Interfax. Three Russian vessels have been detained in Georgia\'s territorial waters for violating navigation rules over the past three years. (Interfax).IRAN BUILDS HYDROPOWER PLANT IN TAJIKISTAN
By empty (2/20/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Iran on Monday officially started the construction of a hydropower plant in the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan. Tajikistani President Emomali Rakhmonov, speaking at a ceremony attended by the Iranian speaker of parliament, said the construction of the Sangtuda-2 hydropower plant continued centuries-old cooperation and historical ties between the two countries, mentioning that \"Iran was among the first countries to recognize the independence of Tajikistan.\" The president also said, \"This is not Iran\'s last contribution to the Tajik energy sector.KAZAKH MINISTER SAYS FBI TO HELP IN INVESTIGATION OF OPPOSITION LEADER\'S KILLING
By empty (2/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Interior Minister Bauyrzhan Mukhamedzhanov told Khabar on 16 February that Kazakhstan is arranging for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to take part in the investigation of opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbaev\'s killing.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.