News Digest
FORMER KYRGYZ PM TO REMAIN IN CUSTODY UNTIL PROBE ENDS – PROSECUTORS
By empty (9/7/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan\'s ex-prime minister Nikolai Tanayev, detained while attempting to leave Kyrgyzstan, will remain under arrest until the end of the investigation, spokesman for the Kyrgyz Prosecutor General\'s Office Almaz Daryldayev told Interfax on Wednesday. Tanayev, accused of embezzling state resources, had personal guarantees, issued by a group of Kyrgyz parliamentary deputies which, however, did not give him the right to go abroad, the spokesman said. Tanayev\'s Russian defense lawyer Maxim Maximovich told Interfax on Wednesday that Tanayev\'s arrest is \"illegal.CHINA OIL COMPANY DENIES PLAN ON KAZAK CO.
By empty (9/6/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A Chinese state-owned oil company denied a news report Tuesday that it is negotiating to sell part of a major oil producer in neighboring Kazakhstan to a Kazak state-owned company less than a month after agreeing to buy the firm. China National Petroleum Corp. agreed last month to pay $4.RUSSIA RAPS GEORGIA FOR LACK OF ACTION TO STOP ATTACKS ON RUSSIANS
By empty (9/5/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Russian Foreign Ministry has accused Georgia of not doing enough to prevent attacks on Russian citizens on its territory. \"The Foreign Ministry of Russia notes with concern the growing number of crimes against foreigners, including Russian citizens, in Georgia and the absence of proper counter-measures on the part of Georgian authorities,\" sources in the ministry\'s information and press department told Interfax on Monday. The ministry offered its comment in response to an attack on Russian NTV television journalists in the Georgian village of Napareuli on September 3.NO TALKS ON FUTURE OF U.S. BASES BEFORE NORMALIZATION IN AFGHANISTAN – BAKIYEV
By empty (9/5/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev has said that the future of U.S. military bases in Kyrgyzstan will not be discussed until the situation in Afghanistan is brought back to normal.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.