Turmoil Bubbles in the Soviet Union : MOLDOVA
The ethnic Russian minority in the Romanian-speaking republic was forming militia units to protect itself, the independent Russian Information Agency reported.
GEORGIA
About 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of Georgian President Zviad Gamsakfurdia built barricades around the headquarters of the opposition National Independence Party in Tbilisi to defend it. Counter-demonstrators staged their own rally in front of Georgia’s Parliament, according to news reports.
In the autonomous region of South Ossetia in Soviet Georgia, the capital of Tskhinvali came under heavy fire from Georgian militants Monday night and Tuesday morning, the Soviet news agency Tass reported. The attack was launched from the nearby village of Zemonikozi, populated by ethnic Georgians, and was halted by Soviet interior ministry troops.
ARMENIA
Two Armenians were killed in a village in Nagorno-Karabakh, administered by Azerbaijan but populated largely by ethnic Armenians, news reports said.
AZERBAIJAN
One Azeri was killed and seven were wounded when Armenian fighters attacked the town of Khadzhaly, the independent Azeri new agency Assa-Irada said.
Source: Time Wire Services
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