*Pricing and pipeline problems still holding up Turkmen gas deliveries to Russia
*Kazakhstan prepares to host CSTO military exercise
*Baku offers to help the U.S. and NATO diversify Afghan supply network
*Cyprus negotiations raise hopes for a settlement
**New in the Jamestown blog on Russia and Eurasia (http://www.jamestown.org/blog):
- Bacho Akhalaia Becomes Georgia's New Defense Minister
