News Digest
TROUBLE IN AZERBAIJAN AHEAD OF OPPOSITION LEADER\'S RETURN
By empty (10/17/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The anticipated return to Azerbaijan of an opposition leader has sparked troubled in the capital Baku. Dozens of Rasul Guliyev\'s supporters were arrested after police prevented them from getting to the airport. Guliyev, who faces corruption charges in Azerbaijan, had said he intended to return to take part in next month\'s parliamentary election.KAZAKHSTAN PERMITS CHINESE OIL DEAL
By empty (10/17/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan will let a Chinese state-owned energy firm buy key oil assets in a deal that gives the central Asian nation a share of those assets. During the weekend, the government of Kazakhstan agreed to let China National Petroleum Corp. buy PetroKazakhstan, a private company, for $4.KAZAKH OPPOSITION LEADER REGISTERED AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
By empty (10/17/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan’s Central Electoral Commission has registered the leader of the opposition block For Fair Kazakhstan, Zhamarkhan Tuyakbai as a presidential candidate. Tuyakbai is a second formally registered candidate for the head of state. Earlier, the CEC registered the incumbent president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.NO THREAT OF NEW REVOLUTION IN KYRGYZSTAN - PRESIDENT
By empty (10/17/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has said there is no threat of any revolution in Kyrgyzstan. \"I want to tell all our opponents who are predicting crises, disintegration and revolutions that there will be no disintegration, crisis or revolution,\" he said at an expanded Cabinet session on Saturday. The presidential press service quoted his speech on Monday.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.