Word: azerbaijan
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This time he is not kidding. And because he is not, Kozyrev, a man who truly represents Russian moderation, has given the world a measure of how far Russian moderation has traveled in the past year. For months Russia has been interfering in neighboring republics, notably Georgia and Azerbaijan, to bring them under Russian domination. Withdrawal from the Baltics is stalled. And Belarus, which agreed to scrap its currency and restore the ruble, is in effect being economically annexed...
...chains, before the victors. In early October, the same kind of spectacle took place in Moscow. The humbled losers were not the defeated defenders of the White House, who capitulated with their hands over their heads. Boris Yeltsin's victims were instead the smiling leaders of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, who appeared before President Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin to announce they would join the Commonwealth of the Independent States. The architect of this "class reunion," Defense Minister Grachev, was sitting next to Yeltsin. He, too, was smiling...
Georgia's reintegration into Russia's security orbit involves about as much mutual consent as a Mafia shakedown. Russia had cowed its independence-minded neighbors with tacit threats of dismemberment before. In the former republics of Moldova and Azerbaijan, an undeniable pattern has emerged. Secessionist rebels, abetted by rouge Russian forces, score impressive military successes. Miraculously, when these states relent and agree to join the C.I.S., Russia's ability to impose a lasting cease-fire soars...
What is happening to Georgia today could be repeated all along the fringes of the old Soviet empire tomorrow. The particular feuds may be different in Tajikistan or Azerbaijan, but they all share the brutality of internecine war. Many of these gerrymandered republics are being torn apart by long-suppressed ethnic hatred erupting like flash fires along Russia's periphery, but few conflicts have reached the incendiary combination of confusion, violence and anarchy that exploded last week in Sukhumi...
...FIVE-YEAR UNDECLARED WAR BETWEEN THE former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is suddenly a lot worse. Armenia has swallowed one-tenth of Azerbaijan, including the regional center of Kelbajar, trapping thousands of civilians in desperate conditions. The U.S. condemned the Armenian attack. The U.N. Security Council demanded that Armenia withdraw from Kelbajar and reaffirmed the sovereignty of the besieged Azeri state. As heavy fighting continued over the weekend, Armenia welcomed an offer by Russian President Boris Yeltsin to mediate an end to the war -- something he and Kazakhstan's leader, Nursultan...