News Digest
RELATIVE OF SLAIN KYRGYZ LEGISLATOR SETS SELF ON FIRE
By empty (11/14/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Asan Erkinbaev, the elder brother of murdered deputy Bayaman Erkinbaev, set himself on fire in Jalalabad on 11 November to protest what the slain legislator\'s relatives have termed a lax investigation, RFE/RL\'s Kyrgyz Service reported. Firemen managed to douse the flames, but Erkinbaev was hospitalized with burns. Acting Jalalabad Governor Jusup Jeenbekov arrived on the scene, and Murat Jusupov, Asan Erkinbaev\'s nephew, reiterated the protestors\' demands: the release of Bayaman Erkinbaev\'s bodyguards and relatives from detention by evening, the arrest of those responsible for Erkinbaev\'s death within three days, and the return of the slain deputy\'s property to his relatives.AZERBAIJAN PROTEST DRAWS 20,000
By empty (11/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
About 20,000 people have attended a protest in Azerbaijan\'s capital, Baku, a week after a parliamentary election they say were rigged. It was the second protest this week, aimed, the opposition says, at sparking a movement like the Orange Revolution that forced regime change in Ukraine. President Ilham Aliyev, whose New Azerbaijan Party won the election, says he will not allow that to happen.CONSTRUCTION OF $140MLN PIPELINE TO BEGIN IN KAZAKHSTAN
By empty (11/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The construction of a gas pipeline linking Karachaganak, Aksai and the Urals is to begin in the Western Kazakhstan Region in spring 2006. The presentation of the project was held at the Karachaganak oil and gas condensate field, where the project developer, Karachaganak Petroleum Operating (KPO) is to begin construction. \"The project has been approved and is being evaluated, President of Kazakhstan\'s KazMunaiGaz national oil and gas company, Uzakpai Karabalin, told the press.FINAL AFGHAN ELECTION RESULTS OUT
By empty (11/12/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The process of counting and checking results from the parliamentary and provincial elections in Afghanistan in September has finally been completed. An election official told the BBC that the election commission had certified results from Kandahar, the final province to be completed. President Hamid Karzai\'s brother, Abdul Qayyum Karzai, has been elected to the lower house of parliament.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.