News Digest
RUSSIAN GENERAL ANNOUNCES CREATION OF \'CENTRAL ASIAN ARMY.\'
By empty (10/11/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) Secretary-General Colonel General Nikolai Bordyuzha said on 11 October that a \"large group of forces\" will be created in Central Asia, similar to the Russia-Belarusian and Russian-Armenian integrated army groups. The CSTO comprises Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Russia. Bordyuzha said that the Central Asian army group will be composed \"not from battalions, but from regiments and divisions and, in the event of a serious military conflict, it will defend CSTO members from all sides.US GETS DEAL ON KYRGYZ AIR BASE
By empty (10/11/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The US and Kyrgyzstan have reached an agreement to allow US-led coalition forces to continue using a military base near the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. The deal followed talks between US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and President Kurmanbek Bakiev in Bishkek. The base has been used to launch missions in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion to oust the Taleban.KYRGYZ DEPUTY SUGGESTS YEAR-LONG MORATORIUM ON PROTESTS
By empty (10/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chairman of the Kyrgyz parliamentary Committee on State System and Law, Kambaraly Kongantiyev, has suggested a yearlong moratorium on protests, rallies and marches in Kyrgyzstan. \"The situation is unstable, so the republic needs a yearlong moratorium on protests,\" Kongantiyev said in parliament on Monday. \"The moratorium is inevitable.TWENTY-EIGHT OPPOSITION ACTIVISTS DETAINED IN BAKU - POLICE
By empty (10/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Twenty-eight activists of Azerbaijan\'s opposition bloc Azadlyg have been detained by police for holding an unauthorized rally in Baku on Sunday, sources in the city\'s central police department said in a press release. \"Small groups of radical opposition party activists violated public order in busy public places with intensive traffic. The overall number of participants in the rally did not exceed 400 people.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.