By empty (8/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Georgian Minister for Conflict Resolution Giorgi Khaindrava condemned the military maneuvers that commenced in Abkhazia\'s Ochamchira Raion on 15 August as a gross violation of existing agreements, and he appealed to the Russian peacekeeping force deployed in the conflict zone to intervene to stop them. Some 6,000 army, navy, and air-force personnel and reservists are taking part in the exercises, which according to Republic of Abkhazia Defense Minister Lieutenant General Sultan Sosnaliev are intended to demonstrate how prepared the unrecognized republic is to repel any aggression. In an interview in the June, No.

By empty (8/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Turkish scholar Yektan Turkyilmaz told a Yerevan district court on 12 August that he did not deliberately try to smuggle valuable antique books out of Armenia, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. Turkyilmaz, who spent two months in Armenia earlier this summer conducting research into the 1915 genocide, was apprehended on 17 June at Yerevan\'s Zvartnots Airport. He had 89 rare books, some dating from the 17th century, in his luggage when he was detained.

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Felix Kulov has been appointed acting prime minister of Kyrgyzstan, the presidential press service told Interfax on Monday. \"On August 15 President Kurmanbek Bakiyev entrusted Felix Kulov with the duties of prime minister. This decree came into force with immediate effect,\" the press service said.