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Guardian Articles
The Guardian
is a daily newspaper based in Manchester, UK.
Religious Warriors
Ready to Avenge Human Rights Abuses
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan -- Private Pavel Mikheyev will never know what
hit him. Walking home throughthe town of Kurgan-Tyube, in Tajikistan,
last week, the Russian soldier was
caught in a hail of bullets fired by three gunmen who fled the scene.
Guardian (Jun. 7, 1994)

Russians Thrown into Tajik Breach
PYANJ, Tajikistan (The Guardian) -- On the other side of the electrified
barbed-wire fence is a mine field, a couple of hundred yards of brush,
the Pyanj river, and Afghanistan. All along the 620-mile border, Russian
soldiers peer nervously through binoculars and night scopes, from observation
towers, out of trenches, and from behind artillery equipment.
Guardian (Sep. 6, 1993)

Ghost of Gamsakhurdia Continues to
Haunt Georgia
JIKHASKARI, Georgia (The Guardian) -- By all accounts, Georgia's
first democratically-elected post-Soviet president is dead and buried
near the west Georgian village of Jikhaskari. But Zviad Gamsakhurdia isn't
about to let a little thing like death slow him down.
Guardian (Feb. 14, 1993)
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