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Article: RUSSIA: FOREIGN MINISTRY WARNS RUSSIANS AGAINST VISITING GEORGIA.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- January 9, 2001
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The Russian Foreign Ministry on 6 January recommended that Russian citizens avoid travelling to Georgia because of rising crime there, ITAR-TASS reported. The statement said that "the capture of hostages, foreigners among them, by Chechen militants and their accomplices has become more frequent not only in the Pankisi gorge"but in other regions of the country." The Georgian Foreign Ministry dismissed that statement as "irresponsible" and aimed at promoting ...