Word: tajikistan
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...seeks to woo back the near abroad republics can be crude, often mustered under the broad banner of protecting ethnic Russians. In some cases the tool is brute military force of the sort used in December 1992 when Russian-manned planes from Uzbekistan helped bring down a government of Tajikistan composed of Islamic and democratic groups, and installed pro- communist rulers. In other regions, Russia prefers to flex its muscles by yanking the economic rug out from under a government -- as it did last week when Moscow began cutting off gas supplies to Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. Regardless...
...fight to the , finish between the Soviet-era Congress and Yeltsin, it made sense for the U.S. to back him to the hilt. That meant bending over backward not to offend Russian nationalism: leaning hard on Ukraine to disarm; raising no fuss when Russian troops intervened in Georgia, Tajikistan and Moldova; keeping the East Europeans out of NATO...
...Clinton will explain the Partnership for Peace as a sop to the likes of Poland and Hungary, he will also have to advise Yeltsin against behaving too aggressively with his neighbors, especially the former Soviet republics Moscow calls "the near abroad." Russia has intervened militarily in Moldova, Georgia and Tajikistan, and is now shaking a fist at Lithuania. If Clinton is to placate Warsaw and Budapest on NATO membership, Yeltsin will have to offer reassurance to Central Europe by dissociating his government more vigorously from resurgent Russian nationalism...
What is happening to Georgia today could be repeated all along the fringes of the old Soviet empire tomorrow. The particular feuds may be different in Tajikistan or Azerbaijan, but they all share the brutality of internecine war. Many of these gerrymandered republics are being torn apart by long-suppressed ethnic hatred erupting like flash fires along Russia's periphery, but few conflicts have reached the incendiary combination of confusion, violence and anarchy that exploded last week in Sukhumi...
...central Asian state of Tajikistan imposed a state of emergency in a southern province following the death of two progovernment commanders, reportedly in a shoot-out. Capping months of wrangling, Tajik sources say, Sangak Safarov and Faizali Saidov went for their guns during an argument over the fate of refugees seeking to return from Afghanistan. Authorities fear the deadly duel could spark reprisals among the chieftains' followers and embolden Islamic and nationalist insurgents to reignite the fighting that has already claimed more than 20,000 lives...