October 11, 2005


Russian, Armenian Police Practice Quelling Anti-Government Protests

Via Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s English-language web site, AFP reports that Russian and Armenian special police units yesterday conducted a joint excercise in southern Russia.

The exercises come amid signs of nervousness in the Russian administration following popular uprisings in the three former Soviet republics of Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.

The full news item can be read online here.

Posted by Onnik @ 4:58 pm. Filed under: Armenia, Democracy, Caucasus, Elections, Russia




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  1. Carnival of the Revolutions

    This week’s Carnival of the Revolutions is up at Armenian blog Oneworld Multimedia. Onnik has excelled himself with a glut of stories covering Armenia and the FSU, not to mention the rest of the world.
    Incidentally, while you’re at Onewo…

    Trackback by siberianlight.net — October 11, 2005 @ 9:50 pm

  2. About 1500 police personnel to “subdue” a “riot” of 50 “protestors”? How very efficient! ;-)

    Comment by Myrthe — October 12, 2005 @ 10:31 am

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