News Digest
NATIONALISTS MURDER ETHNIC ARMENIAN IN COMMUTER TRAIN NEAR MOSCOW
By empty (5/30/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A 19-year-old ethnic Armenian was stabbed to death in a commuter train near Moscow. Lawyer Simon Tsaturian told Interfax on Tuesday that a group of young men attacked Artur Sardarian, a permanent resident of the town of Pushkino, in a commuter train northeast of Moscow in the evening of May 25, stabbing him many times. Quoting eyewitnesses, the lawyer said that the attackers were shouting \"Glory to Russia!\" (Interfax).GEORGIAN POLICE DETAIN, TORTURE, THEN RELEASE OSSETIANS
By empty (5/30/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian police detained some 40-50 Ossetians on May 27 in villages in the South Ossetian conflict zone and took them to Gori for questioning, Russian and Georgian media reported. Most of the men were released the following day, and subsequently claimed to have been subjected to \"brutal\" torture.\" Eduard Kokoity, president of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia, accused Georgia on May 29 of conducting a policy of deliberate destabilization of the region under U.GEORGIA PROTESTS RUSSIAN ROTATION IN CONFLICT ZONE
By empty (5/30/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Georgian Foreign Ministry has protested Russia\'s steps to rotate its peacekeeping contingent in the conflict zone in the Tskhinvali district. \"In defiance of a warning, Russia has once again violated agreements and visa rules by carrying out a rotation through the Roki Tunnel, bypassing the Kazbegi-Verkhny Lars sole border crossing point,\" the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The rotation \"has violated both Georgian-Russian agreements and decisions taken by the Joint Control Commission for the settlement of the conflict,\" it reads.RUSSIAN PEACEKEEPERS ARRIVE IN TSKHINVALI FOR ROTATION
By empty (5/30/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Five hundred servicemen from Russia\'s North Caucasus Military District have arrived in Tskhinvali, South Ossetia, to replace the Russian peacekeeping battalion from the Joint Peacekeeping Forces. \"A convoy of Russian servicemen has arrived in Tskhinvali. There were no incidents on the journey.Visit also
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Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
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