Word: azerbaijan
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...timing of the announcement was odd, considering that Mikhail Gorbachev is in the midst of numerous crises, including growing separatism in Lithuania and untamed ethnic violence in Azerbaijan. But cloak-and-dagger experts in the West believe Moscow may have publicized the spy's downfall to warn foreign espionage agencies not to take advantage of the tumultuous times in the Soviet Union. "The Top Hat revelation," said a senior British intelligence officer, "would appear to be a very sophisticated maneuver...
...perhaps grazhdanskaya voina -- civil war. That certainly was how the hostilities were seen by the 13,000 Armenians who were forced to flee their homes in the embattled southern republic of Azerbaijan last week, first crossing the Caspian Sea by ferry to Turkmenistan, then flying on to Moscow or the Armenian capital of Yerevan. Many of those who landed in Moscow huddled around the building that houses Armenia's representational office, transforming the quiet street into an encampment of shock, grief and rage. As a refugee put it, "What civilized country would allow its own people to be murdered...
...Azerbaijan's KGB expressed alarm in its appeal to residents of the republic for calm, Radio Moscow said...
...Azerbaijan is on the edge of the abyss, beyond which lie chaos and anarchy," the KGB warned...
...shops in the major oil refining center were closed, no morning newspapers were published and Azerbaijan's state-run television was off the air, said Sivinch Abdullayeva, an editor, at Azerinform, the republic's official news agency...