News Digest
US SOLDIERS FACE COURT MARTIAL
By empty (11/17/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Two US soldiers charged with assaulting two Afghan detainees at a US base in southern Afghanistan will face court martial, the US military has said. The soldiers are accused of assaulting the detainees and making false statements, it said. The US military said the detainees who were allegedly assaulted were being temporarily held at a forward operating base in Uruzgan province.400 CIS OBSERVERS TO MONITOR KAZAKH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
By empty (11/17/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Some 400 CIS observers will monitor the Kazakh presidential elections due on December 4, head of the CIS observers mission at Kazakh presidential elections Yevgeny Sloboda said at a press conference in Astana. Sloboda said that the mission includes 42 permanent CIS observers. Moreover, Sloboda said observers from border regions will be invited to the upcoming elections.GEORGIAN SENATORS TO DRAW UP BLACK LIST OF RUSSIAN POLITICIANS
By empty (11/17/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Georgian parliament is going to ask the Georgian Foreign Ministry to draw up a so-called black list of Russian politicians who will be prohibited from entering Georgian territory. Work on drawing up such a list has already begun and it will be completed soon, Georgian Parliamentary Deputy Giga Bokeriya told journalists on Thursday. The parliament has not yet disclosed the names of the Russian politicians who may be included in the black list: however, they are likely to be Russian politicians who constantly visit Abkhazia and South Ossetia disregarding Georgian protests and without reviewing such trips with the Georgian authorities.KAZAKHSTAN-CHINA PIPELINE COMPLETED
By empty (11/16/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan\'s National Petroleum & Natural Gas Co. and China National Petroleum Corp. finished their 600-mile Atasu-to-Alashankou oil pipeline.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.