News Digest
COLLECTIVE SECURITY TREATY ORGANIZATION NOT PLANNING NEW BASES
By empty (12/28/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is not planning to establish new military bases in Central Asia, said CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha. \"The current military-political situation in the Central Asian region and within the CSTO activity area does not give grounds today to talk about setting up more military bases,\" Bordyuzha said at a press conference at the Interfax main office on Wednesday. \"The military bases that Russia has in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Armenia are enough to ensure the CSTO activity,\" he said.INAUGURATION OF KAZAKHSTAN’S NAZARBAYEV TO GATHER 700 GUESTS
By empty (1/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan’s newly elected president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, will be inaugurated at the Ak Orda presidential palace on Wednesday. Delegations from more than 70 countries will attend, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Yerzhan Ashykbayev told the media on Monday. Thirty-two delegations will be led either by presidents, prime ministers or government members.RIOT ERUPTS IN GEORGIAN PRISON
By empty (12/22/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian security forces converged on a prison in Kutaisi on 21 December after prisoners staged a riot within the facility, Rustavi-2 television reported. The estimated 100 prisoners reportedly initiated the riot as part of a protest action directed to garner attention to the prison\'s poor living conditions. The prison lacks heat, adequate water, and suffers from constant electricity shortages, according to Civil Georgia.POLL ON KYRGYZ POLITICAL SYSTEM
By empty (12/21/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan is to hold a referendum next year to ask people if they want a different government system, President Kurmanbek Bakiev has said. People will be asked if they want power to be held predominantly by the president or the parliament, or to be shared between the two. Mr Bakiev pledged to give more power to the parliament when he was elected president in July.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.