News Digest
POWER-SHARING AGREEMENT NEARLY READY - CHECHEN PRESIDENT
By empty (10/5/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A bill on power sharing between the federal and Chechen authorities is nearly ready, Chechen President Alu Alkhanov said. \"The main provisions of the agreement have been negotiated with the presidential envoy in the Southern Federal District, Dmitry Kozak. But the signing of the agreement is being delayed for objective reasons.S. OSSETIA, ABKHAZIA \'SELF-PROCLAIMED\' REPUBLICS - KOKOITY
By empty (10/4/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transdniestria should be referred as self-proclaimed republics, said South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity. \"Our unions with Abkhazia and Transdniestria clearly demonstrate that we should cast away such terms as \'unrecognized\' republics. We are self-proclaimed republics,\" Kokoity told a briefing at the Interfax main office on Tuesday.KAZAKHS SEEK \"STRATEGIC CONTROL\" OVER PETROKAZ
By empty (10/4/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakhstan wants \"strategic control\" over Canadian oil company PetroKazakhstan\'s assets and its state oil firm is in talks to obtain a stake in the firm, the energy minister said on Tuesday. Such a move could complicate a $4.18 billion offer from China National Petroleum Corp.INGUSHETIAN PARLIAMENT APPEALS TO COSSACKS
By empty (10/3/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The People\'s Assembly of the Republic of Ingushetia has written to Viktor Vodolatskii, ataman of the state-registered Don Cossacks, and Sergei Kalashnikov, ataman of the Kuban Cossacks, asking them to support the Ingush appeal to the Russian Constitutional Court to reject a request by North Ossetia to declare unconstitutional Articles 3 and 6 of the 1991 Law on the Rehabilitation of Oppressed Peoples. Those two articles call for the restoration of the internal borders between North Caucasus republics that existed prior to the 1944 deportations of the Chechens and Ingush, among others, and the abolition of the then Checheno-Ingush ASSR. If implemented, they would entail the return to Ingushetia of North Ossetia\'s Prigorodnyi Raion.Visit also
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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.