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...Moscow. They had been sent to London by the charismatic but volatile Djokar Dudayev, Chechnya's self-styled President. Ter-Oganisyan tipped off Armenia's security service that the two Chechens were planning to buy 2,000 Stinger missiles. The Armenians believed the weapons were destined for their archenemy, Azerbaijan. To stop the trade, two agents arrived in London to murder Dudayev's envoys. (The murders were uncovered when a packing case fell out of a truck in a North London high street to reveal the elder brother's dismembered body.) Ter-Oganisyan is now serving a life sentence...
...Another after-effect of Kosovo's independence is Moscow's rallying of its hitherto reluctant CIS partners against the West. Oil-rich Azerbaijan, for example, had long begun inclining towards the West, but may be pushed back into Moscow's orbit because of Nagorno-Karabakh, a province that broke away in the 1990s and has de facto integrated with Armenia. Last week, for the first time in years, Azeri and Armenian forces clashed in a full scale fighting in Karabakh...
...performances to work with students and faculty on cross-cultural development through music.According to Laura Freid, CEO and Executive Director of the Silk Road Project, Inc., the inspiration to showcase “Layla and Majnun” came from a meeting with Qasimov while the group was in Azerbaijan. He and his daughter Fargana Qasimova later joined the Silk Road Ensemble and both will perform at Harvard this week.“Trust is very important,” said Freid, of gaining the support of musicians from other countries. “They know we really respect...
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