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Shielded by soldiers, the couple, their daughter and Asya's 90-year-old mother were escorted to a car and taken first to the local police station and then to the docks of Baku. There, along with 600 other Armenian refugees, they boarded a ferry for Krasnovodsk in Turkmenistan across the Caspian Sea. "I wrote a year ago to the central government asking for a residence permit in the Moscow region, but I was turned down," said Ashot, his eyes watery with tears. "We have no place...
...perhaps grazhdanskaya voina -- civil war. That certainly was how the hostilities were seen by the 13,000 Armenians who were forced to flee their homes in the embattled southern republic of Azerbaijan last week, first crossing the Caspian Sea by ferry to Turkmenistan, then flying on to Moscow or the Armenian capital of Yerevan. Many of those who landed in Moscow huddled around the building that houses Armenia's representational office, transforming the quiet street into an encampment of shock, grief and rage. As a refugee put it, "What civilized country would allow its own people to be murdered...
...George Hall of the Kremlin, the President was soon smiling and bantering with his guest, the highest Iranian official to visit Moscow since the days of the Shah. In two meetings, the two sides signed four agreements providing for, among other things, a new rail link between Soviet Turkmenistan and the northern Iranian city of Mashhad, which would help fulfill a longtime Moscow goal of greater access to the Persian Gulf. There were discussions, but no final accord, on reopening a gas pipeline from Iran to Soviet Transcaucasia, which was shut down in 1980. Moscow also announced that it would...
...Moscow was dealing with several of its provincial republics--Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan and Turkmenistan--and apparently the provincial academies of science had difficulty selecting people." C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, director of the Peabody Museum and one of the meeting's organizers, said yesterday...
Maling Soong Foundation Lecture: Sheila Winer, Professor of Art, University of Massachusetts on "The Art of the Indus Civilization, Turkmenistan, and Mesopotamia." Open to all. Lecture Room, Margaret Clapp Library...