Archives for the ‘The Guardian (UK)’ Category

Religious Warriors Ready to Avenge Human Rights Abuses

By admin • Jun 7th, 1994 • Category: The Guardian (UK), War

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 [...]



Russians Thrown into Tajik Breach

By admin • Sep 6th, 1993 • Category: The Guardian (UK), War

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.



Ghost of Gamsakhurdia Continues to Haunt Georgia

By admin • Feb 14th, 1993 • Category: The Guardian (UK), War

JIKHASKARI, Georgia –  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 [...]