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UPI Articles

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Tadzhikistan replaces leader again
KHODZENT, Tadzhikistan (UPI) -- Tadzhikistan's Parliament removed the acting president by an overwhelming vote Thursday and replaced him with the country's third leader since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
UPI (Nov. 19, 1992)

Tajik Combatants Ignore Calls for Peace
KURGAN-TYUBE, Tadzhikistan (UPI) -- Combatants in the strife-torn Central Asian republic of Tadzhikistan Thursday ignored calls by a newly-created interim council to cease fire and work towards a settlement in the long-running civil war.
UPI (Nov. 12, 1992)

Portrait of a small Caucasus war
UPPER ESHERA, Georgia (UPI) -- Sound carries well in the coastal foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, which at sunrise these days means rifle fire and bursting shells mixed in with crowing roosters and coughing tractor engines.
UPI (Nov. 11, 1992)

Bombs and bullets, not ballots, concern in west of Georgia
GAGRA, Georgia (UPI) -- While most of the rest of Georgia was to vote Sunday in parliamentary elections, refugees returning to the north of the breakaway Abkhazia region were concerned about bread and bullets rather than ballots.
UPI (Nov. 10, 1992)

Separatist fight costly in western Georgia
GUDAUTA, Georgia (UPI) -- Besieged towns in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazian region were clearing roads of explosives and attempting to open supply lines Friday during a lull in the
hostilities.
UPI (Nov. 9, 1992)

New promises of help for war-torn Tadzhikistan
DUSHANBE, Tadzhikistan (UPI) -- A peace mission to the Central Asian state of Tadzhikistan led by officials from neighboring Kyrgyzstan ended in the Tadzhik capital Dushanbe Sunday with new promises of help for the strife-torn republic.
UPI (Nov. 8, 1992)

Russian military plays role in Tadzhikistan conflict
DUSHANBE, Tadzhikistan (UPI) -- A provisional ruling council asserted authority Friday in the strife-wracked Central Asian republic of Tadzhikistan and Russian troops began playing an active role to prevent more bloodshed.
UPI (Nov. 6, 1992)

 

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