Word: daghestan
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...environment, why would anyone target relief workers? Ruslan Kutayev, minister of the Russian-backed Chechen government, called the attack an intentional and planned provocation aimed at derailing elections scheduled for January 27th. "The shooting comes on the heels of a hostage taking incident over the weekend on the Chechen Daghestan border, when 22 Russian Interior Ministry troops were taken," says TIME's Andrew Meier. "It looks as if there is some infighting between Chechen commanders; someone dosn't want the elections to happen." The Red Cross is pointing no fingers, and hasn't said yet which local Chechen boss...
...mixed in with the older pieces. They are the culmination of a recent drive to re-learn and preserve the old folk arts. Where a break in the craft tradition has never occurred, the results are most successful--for example, plates and pitchers of iron inlaid with silver from Daghestan, and silver filigree jewelry, from Georgia. Two showcases display the products of lacquer-work masters from Ralekh--little papier-mache boxes, decorated with elaborate designs in egg-tempera (often depicting the exploits of Russian fairy-tale heroes), coated with transparent lacquer, then dried and highly polished. One box astonishes...
...established by Treaty of Union signed in 1922 by the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic (Russia proper, Turkestan, Kirghiz, Tartar, Bashkir, Mountain Republic, Daghestan, Crimea, Votiak, Mari, Chuvash, German Volga areas, the Far Eastern region), the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, the White Russian S S R. and the Transcaucasian Socialist Federal S. R. The Treaty was ratified last January...
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