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MOSCOW--A military convoy was ambushed in Azerbaijan and two soldiers and a woman bystander were killed by gunfire, official media said yesterday. The KGB said the republic was on the brink of chaos and anarchy...
Hopes for an end to 10 days of ethnic strife between Armenia and Azerbaijan arose Monday when Communist Party and government officials from the southern republics agreed to withdraw militias from border areas and end clashes between militants...
...Radio Moscow reported yesterday that the situation in Baku remained "complex"--a Russian euphemism that can signify widespread unrest. It said the military commander in Baku, Azerbaijan's capital, vowed that his troops would stop further attacks...
...radio, in a broadcast monitored in London by the British Broadcasting Corp., said troops sent to Azerbaijan came under fire four times Monday and overnight, including an armed attack on a convoy of recently demobilized servicemen also carrying women...
...AZERBAIJAN. Citizens promptly protested Armenia's actions, blockading government offices and seizing a local radio station in the Caspian Sea port of Lenkoran. An officer of the Interior Ministry troops on peacekeeping duty in Nagorno-Karabakh was killed in the village of Akhullu. Azerbaijanis wearing bulletproof vests and carrying automatic weapons attacked Manashid, another village in the disputed district. Farther south, in the Nakhichevan region, where Azerbaijanis are demanding an open frontier with their ethnic kin across the border in Iran, angry crowds continued to tear down border installations and destroy guard posts...