By empty (12/6/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian border guards handed over the final 100 kilometers of the Pamir section of the Tajik-Afghan border to their Tajik colleagues on 5 December. Aleksandr Kondratev, a spokesman for Russia\'s Federal Border Service in Tajikistan, confirmed that the Tajik flag replaced the Russian flag on the border, completing the handover of the 881.6 kilometer Pamir section.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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