News Digest
COURT UPHOLDS LEGALITY OF RULES USED IN KAVKAZ CENTER CLOSURE
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The Lithuanian Constitutional Court has upheld the legality of the rules the national secret services referred to in their demand to close down the Kavkaz Center website run by Chechen separatists on Lithuanian territory, court press secretary Ramune Sakalauskaite told Interfax on Monday. \"The Lithuanian government\'s rules of control and limitations on the distribution of information through the Internet do not contradict the constitution and the media law,\" the court said. (Interfax).MEETING ON KARS - TBILISI - BAKU RAILWAY PROJECT IN ISTANBUL
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Turkish Transportation Minister Binali Yildirim met Transportation Minister Ziya Mammadov of Azerbaijan and Economics & Infrastructure Minister Irakli Chogovadze of Georgia in Istanbul on Monday to discuss Kars-Tbilisi-Baku railway project. Prior to the meeting, Yildirim told reporters, \'\'research studies about the project started last year. We will assess the project in the meeting today.ABKHAZIA, S.OSSETIA SUPPORT EACH OTHER\'S INDEPENDENCE EFFORTS - BAGAPSH
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Abkhazia and South Ossetia support each other\'s aspiration to independence, Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh told Interfax on Monday. Bagapsh said he would come to Tskhinvali on Monday to attend events marking the 15th anniversary of South Ossetia\'s independence. \"Also on Monday we\'ll sign an agreement on cooperation between the two republics,\" Bagapsh said.RUSSIAN COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT NAZARBAYEV\'S REELECTION BID
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Russian community organizations in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan said they would back incumbent Nursultan Nazarbayev in the forthcoming presidential election, slated for Dec. 4. The Russian Lad movement said in a statement Monday that it welcomes Nazarbayev\'s decision to run for an eighth seven-year term as no other figure on Kazakhstan\'s political scene enjoys as much public trust and respect.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.