News Digest
CENTRAL ASIA REACTS TO HUSSEIN EXECUTION
By empty (1/3/2007 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Central Asian governments reacted negatively to the December 30 execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, news agencies reported. Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Erzhan Ashikbaev said on December 31 that Hussein\'s execution is unlikely to \"speed up the stabilization of the internal political situation in Iraq.\" \"On the contrary,\" Ashikbaev continued, \"it may lead to a further exacerbation of the military and political situation and escalation of conflicts on religious and ethnic basis.CHINA CEDES STAKE TO COMPLETE KAZAKH OIL PURCHASE
By empty (12/31/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The state-run China\'s International Trust & Investment Corporation (CITIC) Group has purchased the Kazakh oil assets of Canadian-registered Nations Energy for $1.9 billion. Citic has agreed, however, to give Kazakh state-owned oil and gas company KazMunaiGaz the option to acquire a 50-percent stake in the purchase.13 UZBEK REFUGEES RETURN HOME FROM UKRAINE
By empty (12/30/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A group of 13 Uzbek refugees who fled their homeland after the May 2005 unrest in Andijon have returned home from Ukraine even though they received approval for relocation to Sweden, according to a source in Uzbek law enforcement. Their return brings to 66 the number of Uzbek refugees who have gone home. A total of 439 Uzbek asylum seekers were airlifted out of Kyrgyzstan in 2005.ABKHAZIA APPEALS TO UN OVER GEORGIAN KILLINGS
By empty (12/29/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Foreign Ministry of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia released a statement on December 29 appealing to the UN and Russia to condemn the killing several days earlier, which it blamed on Georgian guerrillas, of three Abkhaz police officials in Abkhazia\'s southernmost Gali Raion. Also on December 29, Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh told journalists in Sukhum that Georgia was moving its armed forces towards the border with Abkhazia and might attempt over the New Year holiday to seize the Inguri hydroelectric power station in Gali. He said additional troops have been deployed to protect that facility.Visit also
Staff Publications
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, "Promise and Peril in the Caucasus," AFPC Insights, March 30, 2023.
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Putin's War In Ukraine and the Crimean War), 19fourtyfive, January 2, 2023
Oped S. Frederick Starr, Russia Needs Its Own Charles de Gaulle, Foreign Policy, July 21, 2022.
Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, Rethinking Greater Central Asia: American and Western Stakes in the Region and How to Advance Them, June 2022
Oped Svante E. Cornell & Albert Barro, With referendum, Kazakh President pushes for reforms, Euractiv, June 3, 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell Russia's Southern Neighbors Take a Stand, The Hill, May 6, 2022.
Silk Road Paper Johan Engvall, Between Bandits and Bureaucrats: 30 Years of Parliamentary Development in Kyrgyzstan, January 2022.
Oped Svante E. Cornell, No, The War in Ukraine is not about NATO, The Hill, March 9, 2022.
Analysis Svante E. Cornell, Kazakhstan’s Crisis Calls for a Central Asia Policy Reboot, The National Interest, January 34, 2022.
Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, S. Frederick Starr & Albert Barro, Political and Economic Reforms in Kazakhstan Under President Tokayev, November 2021.