Word: tbilisi
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GEORGIA. Violence flared over the release of four Ossetians detained in connection with the fatal shooting of a nine-month-old infant last fall. Ossetian activists are campaigning for greater autonomy and cries persist to ) "overthrow the Communist regime in the republic." In Kareli, 50 miles northwest of Tbilisi, protesters demanding independence drove government workers out of their offices...
Haunted by nightmares of blood in Tiananmen Square, Rumania and even Tbilisi last April, when Soviet troops massacred 19 protesters, Moscow is reluctant to use force to maintain control in the republics. It is also possible to contemplate the three Baltic states seceding without the entire union unraveling. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are relatively recent additions to the union. Furthermore, unlike many of the other republics, the Baltics were independent at the time of their incorporation. There is, therefore, a historical basis for treating them as a special case. Perhaps the Kremlin aims to do just that. Last week Soviet...
...April a peaceful demonstration by Georgian separatists in Tbilisi turned into a horror when army and Interior Ministry troops attacked the unarmed protesters with shovels, clubs and poison gas, killing 20. There have been similar nationalist flare-ups in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tadzhikistan...