Word: pankisi
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...among eight M.P.s who controversially voted against the party line and in favor of allowing gay and unmarried couples to adopt. But the measure failed in the House of Lords. GEORGIA Free at Last Kidnapped English businessman Peter Shaw was about to be shot on a mountain path in Pankisi Gorge when he broke free and hid in gorse bushes. He escaped after five months captivity, during which he had been kept chained in a cellar. The banker was seized in June in Tbilisi by a gang disguised as policemen. His unaided escape will do little to enhance President Eduard...
...time: late last year. The scene: the Pankisi Valley, a lawless corner of Georgia just over the mountains from Chechnya that is a safe haven for drug dealers, kidnappers, Chechen guerrillas and, if U.S. officials are right, a small number of al-Qaeda operatives. A Russian military jeep drives up a narrow, winding track and is ambushed by bearded gunmen. In the resulting firefight, one of the attackers is killed. Such skirmishes happen almost daily in Chechnya, where Russia is fighting a war against separatist guerrillas. Just last week Chechen rebels shot down a Russian helicopter in neighboring Ingushetia, after...
...Still, for Moscow, the Galashki clashes are welcome evidence of Georgian perfidy. The Georgian government traditionally claims that Chechen rebels hide out in the lawless Pankisi Valley where the government has no control, but it's safe to assume the government knew what was happening. There's a lot of sympathy for the Chechen rebels in Georgia, a former Soviet Republic whose leaders have been trying to move out of the Russian orbit and closer to the West. And of course that, and not simply rebel infiltration, is the source of Moscow's hostility to Georgia's government...
...Thursday the Russians were hinting very strongly that the latest fighting is the final straw. On Friday the tone seems to have calmed a little. Georgia is expecting retaliation, and not just in the Pankisi Gorge. That might be bombed a couple of times, but there's not much there except a few sheep. Instead, the Georgians expect a Russian military operation to break Georgia's grip on the Kodori Valley. Several pieces of Georgia have been nibbled away by Russian-backed separatist insurgencies since Georgia broke from the Soviet Union. The most independently-minded region is Abkhazia, to which...
...northern Spain's Basque region and fought crowds of up to 300 with batons and rubber bullets. Here Batasuna's Eusebio Lasa resists in his own way. After a lopsided vote in parliament, the cabinet agreed to ask the Supreme Court to ban the party. GEORGIA Russia and the Pankisi Gorge Eduard Shevardnadze used a visit to the lawless Pankisi Gorge to renew his criticism of Russia's alleged Aug. 23 air raid on Georgian territory. It "has broken all limits," Georgia's President said at the funeral of Guram Otiashvili, supposedly killed in the raid on Matani village. Shevardnadze...