News Digest
MUFTI CONCERNED BY RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN RUSSIA
By empty (1/10/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Slogans sowing national discord are unacceptable in Russia, according to Head of the Russian Council of Muftis Ravil Gainutdin. \"We should not forget that Russia has been a multinational and multi confessional country, not only since recent migration, but since the time of Ancient Rus, occupied by no less than twenty nations,\" Gainutdin said addressing several thousand believers in a Moscow Jami celebrating the religious holiday Kurban Bayram. \"Slogans such as \"Russia for Russians!\" and negative attitude to certain nationalities and to Muslims are openly hostile to our state and its interests,\" he said.POPULAR KYRGYZ ATHLETE SLAIN BY UNKNOWN ASSAILANTS
By empty (1/10/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Kyrgyz national sports hero Raatbek Sanatbaev was killed early on 9 January outside his home in Bishkek. Police spokeswoman Aida Bakirova reported that the 36-year-old Sanatbaev, a two-time Asian Games wrestling champion, was shot twice in the head by two unknown assailants and died en route to hospital. President Kurmanbek Bakiev decried the killing as \"a great loss to national sport.PROTESTS AT AFGHAN BORDER DEATHS
By empty (1/9/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Pakistan has protested to US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan after eight Pakistanis were killed in alleged cross-border firing on Saturday. \"We have protested to the coalition forces because they are responsible for security on the other side,\" Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said. She said US forces had not entered Pakistani territory.DIRECT FLIGHT NOW LINKS KAZAKH-AFGHAN CAPITALS
By empty (1/9/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A civilian passenger aircraft landed at Almaty airport on 7 January, marking the start of a new direct air link between Kazakhstan and Afghanistan, Khabar TV reported. Carrying a group of more than 60 Afghan businessmen and government officials, the inaugural flight signified a new effort to expand bilateral trade and commerce. A weekly direct flight by an Afghan Boeing 737-800 will link the two capitals, with flights from Kabul serving Almaty from the Middle East and originating in Almaty to Europe and Asia.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.