News Digest
JUSTICE PARTY OFFICE ATTACKED IN GEORGIA
By empty (10/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Unidentified assailants have attacked the office of the Justice Party, led by Georgia\'s former Security Minister Igor Giorgadze, in the town of Telavi. The office windows were broken, the front door knocked down, the furniture damaged and the papers stolen early on Sunday, the party\'s press center told Interfax. \"This savage act was timed to coincide with the party\'s congress due to take place in Tbilisi on October 3.ONE SERVICEMAN KILLED, TWO WOUNDED IN CHECHNYA
By empty (10/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
One serviceman was killed and two others were wounded in Chechnya on Saturday. \"A contract serviceman was wounded when unidentified assailants opened fire at a reconnaissance squad on the outskirts of the village of Avtury at 10:22 a.m.POLICE DISPERSE AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION RALLY
By empty (10/1/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Police in Baku resorted to force on 1 October in an attempt to disperse opposition supporters who sought to gather on one of the city squares for a rally prohibited by the municipal authorities. The rally was organized by the opposition Azadlyq bloc formed to participate in the parliamentary elections scheduled for 6 November. Would-be participants called for the resignation of the country\'s leadership and for free elections.ABKHAZIA, S. OSSETIA AGAINST WITHDRAWAL OF PEACEKEEPERS
By empty (9/30/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian peacekeepers guarantee stability in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, according to the leaders of the two breakaway Georgian provinces. \"We value Russia\'s peacekeeping mission in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone highly. Russian peacekeepers are guarantors of the stability of the situation in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone, and their withdrawal could only lead to a deterioration in the situation,\" Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh told Interfax on Friday.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.