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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...
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...
...December demonstrators in Nakhichevan, an autonomous region separated from the rest of the republic by a strip of Armenian territory, formed a human chain along the Iranian border and called for the union of the two parts of Azerbaijan. Two weeks later the Popular Front sent an ultimatum to KGB troops guarding the frontier: if fences and barriers were not removed, the Front would tear them down on Dec. 31. KGB commanders made a few concessions -- some crossing points were opened for those who had business or wished to visit cemeteries in Iran -- but the threatened attacks were carried...
...against entrenched bureaucrats denied almost a third of the country's regional party chiefs seats in the Congress. In May live coverage of Congress sessions gave the spellbound nation a crash course in democracy, as radicals and former dissidents led by the late Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov denounced the KGB as "the most secret and conspiratorial of all state institutions" and counseled against giving Gorbachev, now President of the country, too much power. Here was part of the paradox of perestroika: democratization, so crucial to Gorbachev's principles and strategy alike, emboldened his critics and opponents...