Word: azerbaijan
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...surprise. A look at any relief map will show that Chechnya holds the gateway through the Caucasus Mountains into the Russian heartland. Once past Grozny, it's a flat, fast tank ride to Moscow. The Russian military planners will never give up both the southern gateways of Georgia and Azerbaijan and the northern gateways of Chechnya, which would effectively relinquish control of the natural barrier the Caucasus Mountains afford. While public opinion rises against Yeltsin, the Russian military machine's influence is still alive and well. Unlike that in Western Europe or the U.S., Russian public opinion cannot swing...
...Russia for the "mass killing of peaceful citizens." Chechen radio said the Russian attacks targeted residential areas and administrative buildings. A Russian government statement acknowledged the worsening situation in Grozny but blamed Dudayev, saying he's holding his own people hostage. Meanwhile, Russia closed its borders with Georgia and Azerbaijan to limit Chechen supply routes and troop movements...
...trying to get the embargo on Iraqi oil sales lifted because the oil revenue is the only way Iraq can pay for arms it buys from the old U.S.S.R., and Moscow needs the money. Financial pressure also underlies Moscow's insistence that any Western companies drilling for oil in Azerbaijan build a pipeline through Russia, a demand that has aborted some promising deals. The U.S. responded calmly to Yeltsin's announcement on Friday that he had authorized the army to use "all means at * the state's disposal" to bring the breakaway republic of Chechnya back into the Russian Federation...
...droll history of damage and resentments both small and large. "Don't walk along this path," a wary guide tells Kapuscinski. "because you are not a Georgian. The Georgians will not forgive you." He also hears of nearly 40 border conflicts, none more bitter than the clash between Muslim Azerbaijan and the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Geographically separated from Armenia, the Christian majority of Nagorno- Karabakh sees itself as a forgotten outpost of Western civilization in a rising sea of born-again Muslims. Armenians and Azerbaijanis are so polarized by this issue, says Kapuscinski, that anyone who is bold enough...
...Hank Brown of Colorado. But still one has to wonder what happened between the November hearings and now. The first volley was fired on Feb. 14 when Brown received several dozen questions from the two Senators; by April 20 the number had exceeded 100 and ranged from travel in Azerbaijan (he has never been there) to concern about his dropping a requirement that Peace Corps volunteers be instructed in the menace of communism (the archaic provision was no longer being observed). He was also asked whether he had thrown any objects, "including human feces," at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Brown...