News Digest
SYRIA TO HELP EDUCATE CHECHEN MUSLIM CLERGYMEN
By empty (9/19/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Syria is ready to help Muslim clergymen in Chechnya and will encourage more young people from the republic to study at Syrian universities, Syria\'s Grand Mufti Ahmed Bader al-Din Hassoun said at a meeting with visiting Chechen President Alu Alkhanov. The Chechen president\'s press secretary Muslim Khuchiyev told Interfax that up to 200 students from Chechnya are now studying in Syria. \"The parties agreed that the activities of extremists, who justify their actions with Islamic ideology, have nothing in common with religion,\" Khuchiyev said.UZBEKS \'LIVE IN CLIMATE OF FEAR\'
By empty (9/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Residents of the Uzbek town of Andijan say police are still threatening the relatives of people accused of taking part in anti-government protests. A BBC correspondent says the town is outwardly calm but people are living in a climate of fear, with few willing to discuss openly what happened. Human rights groups say hundreds of unarmed civilians were killed in May when troops opened fire on protesters Uzbek officials say Islamic militants tried to overthrow the government.CHECHEN INTERIOR MINISTRY DENIES HEAVY CASUALTIES IN SHOOTING ATTACKS
By empty (9/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Chechen Interior Ministry on Sunday denied reports that a series of shooting attacks had been made on federal military bases and Chechen police posts over the past 24 hours. \"Reports saying that fire had been opened at several federal military bases and Chechen police posts over the past 24 hours, leaving about a dozen people dead and many more wounded, are untrue,\" the Chechen Interior Ministry\'s spokesman Ruslan Atsayev told Interfax. Atsayev said one serviceman was killed, when an armored personnel carrier hit a mine during an engineer reconnaissance mission near the Meskert-Yurt village.UKRAINIAN CIVIC ORGANIZATION ACTIVIST DEPORTED FROM AZERBAIJAN
By empty (9/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry\'s councellor and member of the Pora civic organization Serhiy Yevtushenko, detained in Baku on September 15, has been freed and deported to Ukraine. The Ukrainian embassy in Baku told Interfax that no documents on Yevtushenko\'s detention or deportation had been provided to the Ukrainian diplomatic mission. The Pora press service said on Thursday that Yevtushenko had arrived in Baku at the invitation of the Musavat [Equality] opposition party.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.