RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY BLAMES GEORGIA FOR MURDER OF RUSSIAN COLONEL
By empty (8/9/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Boris Malakhov said on 8 August that the Georgian authorities "are fully to blame" for the "brutal" murder in Tbilisi of Russian Colonel Igor Zaitsev. Zaitsev was killed by repeated blows to the head with a blunt instrument. The presumed murderer, who has denied killing Zaitsev, is David Zazashvili, an ethnic Georgian citizen of Russia who was one of Zaitsev's colleagues.Visit also
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