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...much more ethnic violence can the Soviet Union endure? A month after anti-Armenian pogroms in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku and a brutal clampdown by the Soviet army, Kremlin control seemed to hang by a thread last week in yet another Soviet republic. This time rioting and looting, followed by direct intervention by the Soviet army, took place in Dushanbe, capital of Tadzhikistan, a little-known republic (pop. 5.1 million) tucked into a mountainous fold of Central Asia between Afghanistan and China...
...Armenians and Azerbaijanis finally sat down to discuss their differences last week, but not on their own turf. Instead representatives from the two Soviet republics gathered in Riga, the capital of Latvia. Leaders of the Azerbaijani Popular Front and the Armenian National Movement accepted a call from their Baltic counterparts to open talks on their two years of violent clashes. Emerging from the first session, both groups agreed to seek the release of all hostages by March 1 and to establish permanent relations between the two groups. No speedy peace settlement is expected, if only because the Azerbaijanis refused...
...Major General Sergei Kupreyev his position within the Interior Ministry and he explains, with a smile, that he is actually deputy chief of the Higher Academy of Fire Fighters. The affiliation is appropriate: for the past year, he has been putting out symbolic fires in Nagorno-Karabakh, the mostly Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan and the scene of some of the region's worst ( bloodletting. A year ago, the Kremlin dispatched Kupreyev and four other outsiders to assume administrative control of Nagorno-Karabakh. In November the Supreme Soviet returned command of the enclave to the Azerbaijanis. Two weeks ago, Kupreyev...
...Soviet Minister of the Interior, Vadim Bakatin, told a press conference in Baku that Azerbaijan's own police force suffered only a "temporary" loss of control when mobs broke into Armenian homes and killed dozens of people. He suggested that the Front confer with the police on restoring order. "There are," said Bakatin, "undoubtedly healthy forces within the Popular Front with whom the police must actively cooperate." But Bakatin obviously had a different opinion of the police than his ministerial colleague at Defense did: Yazov publicly accused the police of supplying guns to the Front...
...head of the Azerbaijani Communist Party was dismissed for "serious mistakes" and replaced by the republic's premier, Ayaz Mutalibov, but the move cannot redeem the prestige of a party now identified with the military occupation. Yazov seemed to confirm last week that Gorbachev intervened not to save Armenian lives but to prevent the Popular Front from taking control of Azerbaijan. "The army's actions," he said, "are directed at destroying the organizational structure of the Popular Front leaders who are keen on seizing power...