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| Caucasus |
| Russia strengthens border with Georgia... |
| 2002-05-27 |
| On Monday Director of the Federal Frontier Service Konstantin Totsky stated that the Federal Frontier Service was strengthening protection of the Chechen sector of the Russian-Georgian border. Totsky indicated that it was related to the necessity to "prevent infiltration of militants across the border", as already three weeks ago snow started melting in the mountains and passes started to open. Totsky indicated that presently they were agreeing the plan of interaction between frontier posts and units of the Joint grouping of forces and the internal troops of the Ministry of Interior. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 I think the news, if any, is that the weather's getting better and they expect the Chechens to use Pankisi and maybe Kodori as safe areas and they want to be in position to catch as many as they can. For a while they thought they'd gotten Basayev, but it turned out they hadn't. They'd really like to bag him and al-Walid. |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-05-28 19:14:03 |
| #1 And this is news? I wonder if they are also getting out the survey crews to figure out exactly where the border is: for a few millenia this border was a line on the map and had little political meaning. Now it's a division of responsiblity in trying to track down some unfriendly bandits. |
| Posted by: Tom Roberts 2002-05-28 10:24:23 |