By empty (9/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Georgian Foreign Minister Salome Zourabichvili said her country is interested in bringing relations with Russia back to normal. \"Both parties applaud the progress they have made regarding the withdrawal of Russia\'s military bases from Georgia, but further steps need to be taken,\" she said. \"Relations with Russia should be normalized in fact, not only in words.

By empty (9/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Kyrgyz National Bank Chairman Ulan Sarbanov has been placed under house arrest. \"The Prosecutor General\'s Office issued a decree regarding National Bank head Ulan Sarbanov on September 2,\" Prosecutor General\'s Office spokesman Sumar Nasiza told Interfax on Friday. \"This decision was made as part of the criminal case opened to look into steps by the National Bank head to hand over more than $400,000 to Kyrgyzstan\'s ex-president Askar Akayev in 1999,\" he said.

By empty (9/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

A guerrilla leader, suspected of helping to organize recent assassination attempts on Ingushetia\'s Prime Minister Ibragim Malsagov and Nazran police chief Col. Dzhabrail Kostoyev, was killed in a sweep operation on Friday, sources in the republic\'s Federal Security Service branch told Interfax. \"It was established early Friday morning that Mirzoyev was hiding in one of the houses in the village of Karabulak, he was given an opportunity to surrender, but started shooting.