By Theresa Freese (6/30/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

A situation previously described as “tense” escalated after a Georgian resident was slightly wounded while Ossetian forces were conducting an exercise on military training grounds in Prisi village. In response, Irakli Okruashvili, Georgian Interior Minister, issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Ossetian authorities demanding that the responsible individual be arrested. Otherwise, Georgian authorities would deal with the situation.

By Fariz Ismailzade (6/30/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

This week police and demonstrators once again clashed in the streets of Baku. The cause of these clashes was the arrival of two Armenian officers in Baku to participate in a NATO conference. Several dozens of members of the Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) stormed the \"Europe\" hotel, where the conference was taking place and attempted to psychically remove the Armenian officers from there.

By Marat Yermukanov (6/16/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The incident occurred on June 1 at the border crossing near Saryagash district in South Kazakhstan region. 27-year old Nurzhigit Potanov, resident of the Kazygurt district, according to accounts given by Kazakh border guards, traveled in a hired car to neighboring Mayaul village in Uzbekistan to get his intended bride, a citizen of Uzbekistan, for their wedding ceremony. At the check-point his car was stopped by Uzbek border guards who took the ignition key from the driver and kept the car detained for unknown reasons.