News Digest
KAZAKH ELECTION \'NOT DEMOCRATIC\'
By empty (12/5/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Sunday\'s presidential election in Kazakhstan failed to meet international democratic standards, Europe\'s main poll-monitoring body the OSCE has said. Failings included ballot box stuffing, intimidation of the opposition, and media bias, the OSCE said. It said its 460 monitors had noted some improvements from previous elections, but flaws \"limited the possibility for a meaningful competition\".DEFENDANT IN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF U.S., GEORGIAN PRESIDENTS FACES LIFE
By empty (12/5/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The trial of the 27-year-old Vladimir Arutyunian accused of staging a terrorist act against the U.S. and Georgian presidents, murdering a police officer and other crimes, kicked off in Tbilisi on Monday.GEORGIAN SHIP SINKS OFF COAST OF ITALY
By empty (12/4/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A tanker sailing under the Georgian flag sank Saturday night off the coast of Italy, the Georgian Maritime Administration has told Interfax. There were 13 crewmembers, mainly Georgian nationals, aboard the tanker Margarita. All of them are alive.\'FOUR KILLED\' IN AFGHAN ATTACKS
By empty (12/3/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Militants have killed the head of a district administration and three police officers in two attacks in southern Afghanistan, officials say. The head of Shah Wali Kot district in Kandahar province, Ayatullah Popal, and two security officers are said to have died in a bomb attack. Three other policemen were injured in the attack, officials say.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.