Word: azerbaijan
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...Economic restructuring has already cost millions of Soviets their jobs this year, pushing up the unemployment rate -- as high as 27% in Azerbaijan, for example...
...troops were deployed in Tbilisi was the decision of the Georgian government. It was not the decision of the military. It is, of course, another matter that everything ended so badly. But there are other areas, like Azerbaijan, where the armed forces are preventing events that result in | bloodshed and are keeping order. What happened in Georgia was a single incident. A painful event. But it did not happen at the initiative of the military. Our government learned a lesson: our armed forces do not participate in such events now, and local governments have no right to give them orders...
...When it was necessary to deploy the military, for example, to guard the railway between Azerbaijan and Armenia, the Supreme Soviet voted...
...Azerbaijan native is already a saavy and outspoken critic of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, and he sits on the Azerbaijan Central Committee...
...says that the Soviets would invade Hungary if they could, but they are having internal problems with nationlist groups in Latvia, Armenia, the Ukraine and even his native Azerbaijan that prevent them...