By empty (9/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian border guards have temporarily stopped letting people across the Russian-Georgian border after people were taken hostage in a school in the North Ossetian town of Beslan, a source in the North Caucasus department of the Russian FSB\'s border service\'s press service told Interfax. \"The procession of documents of people who want to cross the Russian-Georgian border one way or the other has been halted until further notice,\" the source said, noting that this is related to the events in North Ossetia. (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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