Tensions Rising on Georgia-Russia Border
Georgian servicemen have been killed in the past few weeks
The Caucasus has been burning this week.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are nearer to renewed conflict. In 2004, Ramil Safarov, an Azerbaijani Army lieutenant, murdered an Armenian officer during a NATO-sponsored course in Hungary. This week, returning to Baku a convicted killer, Safarov was nonetheless pardoned and afforded a hero's welcome, provoking an inevitable storm of fury in Armenia and an outpouring of international concern.
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