News Digest
FORMER KYRGYZ MINISTERS LOSE IN PARLIAMENTARY BY-ELECTION …AS FORMER PROSECUTOR-GENERAL REGAINS LOST SEAT
By empty (11/29/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Results from a parliamentary by-election in the Tunduk district of northern Bishkek indicated on 28 November that former Foreign Minister Roza Otunbaeva and former Prime Minister Nikolai Tanaev were among those defeated by Finance Ministry official Janysh Kudaibergenov. In the southern Aksy district of Kyrgyzstan, Azimbek Beknazarov secured about 89 percent of the vote in a 28 November by-election for a second vacant seat in the Kyrgyz parliament, according to RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service. Beknazarov originally resigned the seat that he won in the February parliamentary elections to become acting prosecutor-general.UNITED RUSSIA LEADING IN CHECHEN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
By empty (11/28/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
United Russia is leading in Chechen parliamentary elections. \"United Russia ranks first and is almost unreachable for other regional organizations of parties that took part in the Chechen parliament elections,\" Chechen Elections Commission Chairman Ismail Baikhanov told a Monday press conference in Grozny. Official tallies from 237 of 430 polling stations had been processed by noon, and gave United Russia 61.HEAD OF PACE DELEGATION DOUBTS VALIDITY OF CHECHEN ELECTIONS
By empty (11/28/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Head of a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to Chechnya Andreas Gross has doubted the correctness of parliamentary elections in conditions when people are being killed and abducted in the republic. The real authorities, law enforcement bodies, are intimidating people, so it is difficult to evaluate the elections in such conditions, even if they are technically correct, he said at a Monday meeting with Chechen President Alu Alkhanov in Grozny. He said that in Chechnya delegation members met ordinary people.US CONDEMNS AZERI RALLY POLICING
By empty (11/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The US has censured the use of force to disperse crowds in Azerbaijan\'s capital Baku on Saturday who were protesting about recent parliamentary elections. A statement by the US embassy in Baku said it deplored the \"unjustified and unprovoked use of force\". Many people were reported to have been injured by police using truncheons, tear gas and water cannon.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.