By empty (8/19/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The South Ossetian authorities have denied Georgian claims that eight Cossacks were killed near Tskhinvali. \"The Georgian interior minister\'s statement that eight Cossacks were killed near Tskhinvali last night is not true. There are no Cossacks in the Ossetian armed units,\" Chairwoman of the South Ossetian Information and Press Committee Irina Gagloyeva told Interfax.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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