News Digest
TURKMENISTAN COURT JAILS FORMER OIL, GAS OFFICIALS
By empty (9/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A court in Turkmenistan has handed down a 24-year prison sentence to Saparmamed Valiyev, the ex-oil minister of the former Soviet republic in Central Asia. Another former official, Ilyas Charyyev, head of the Turkmenneftegaz oil and gas trading corporation, was convicted of corruption and embezzlement and sentenced to 25 years behind bars. The 25-year prison term is the equivalent of capital punishment in Turkmenistan.RUSSIAN-UZBEK MILITARY EXERCISES BEGIN
By empty (9/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian-Uzbek joint military exercises began on 19 September in Uzbekistan\'s Jizzakh Province, about 250 kilometers outside of Tashkent. The scenario for the exercises, which involve 200 paratroopers from Russia\'s Pskov-based 76th Airborne Division, has Russian and Uzbek forces retaking a population center that has been seized by terrorists. The war games will last until 24 September and will be attended by Uzbek Defense Minister Qodir Ghulomov and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov.ELECTIONS WILL NOT REDUCE DRUG FLOW FROM AFGHANISTAN –IVANOV
By empty (9/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said that the parliamentary elections held in Afghanistan will not lessen the drug threat coming from that country. \"It\'s clear that the Afghan parliamentary elections will not improve the situation in this sphere,\" Ivanov said during President Vladimir Putin\'s meeting with the Cabinet on Monday. (Interfax).KYRGYZ PROSECUTOR GENERAL DISMISSED
By empty (9/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has signed a decree dismissing Azimbek Beknazarov as prosecutor general, a report posted on the president\'s website on Monday evening reads. (Interfax).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.