By empty (9/7/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Kazakhstani Embassy to Russia has sent a note to the Russian General Prosecutor\'s Office with the request to confirm officially the participation of Kazakhs in a siege of a school in Beslan, the press service of the Kazakhstani Foreign Ministry reported. The reason for sending the note was several publications in Russian mass media sources with reference to Sergey Fridinsky, Deputy Prosecutor General for the South Federal District, who declared that Kazakhs had been among the terrorists in Beslan. Russian law enforcement agencies have not confirmed this information by now.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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