By empty (1/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia does not want to see a second Afghanistan in Central Asia and the region should follow an evolutionary path of development, and not a revolutionary one. “We do not want to have another Afghanistan in Central Asia, there should be no revolutions, but evolution that would bring about the establishment of democratic governments,” Putin said about the situation in Uzbekistan. “We know what happened in Andijan, who fomented tensions in that city and how.

By empty (1/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Counter-terrorist operations in Chechnya have almost been completed, President Vladimir Putin said. \"I believe we can speak of the completion of the counter-terrorist operation with the understanding that Chechen law enforcement agencies are assuming the bulk of the responsibility for the state of law and order,\" he told a Tuesday news conference in the Kremlin. \"All necessary government bodies have been set up in Chechnya.

By empty (1/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The Foreign Ministry of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia issued a statement on 31 January implicating Georgia in the recent murder of a local resident. South Ossetian members of the Joint Control Commission tasked with monitoring the situation in the South Ossetian conflict zone issued an analogous condemnation the same day. The Ossetian side claims the dead man was abducted on 26 January in the Georgian village of Kekhvi, close to a Georgian police post, brutally beaten, and then publicly executed.