By empty (11/28/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The security services of the breakaway province of South Ossetia have warned that Georgia\'s special services are plotting provocative acts against Russian peacekeepers deployed in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone. \"The information available to us indicates that officers of the Georgian Interior Ministry have received orders to organize the detention of Russian servicemen from the peacekeeping forces, preferably officers, to take pictures during the [alleged] confiscation of fake U.S.

By empty (11/28/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The opposition Democratic Front Georgian parliament faction took issue on November 27 with comments by U.S. Ambassador John Tefft in an interview published in the weekly \"Kviris palitra,\" Caucasus Press reported on November 27.

By empty (11/28/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The Armenian parliament adopted on November 27 in the third and final reading by a vote of 70 in favor a controversial bill that legalizes the confiscation of private property when dictated by \"state and public need,\" RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. The bill was drafted in response to an April ruling by Armenia\'s Constitutional Court designating unconstitutional the expropriation and demolition of private homes in Yerevan to make way for private development schemes. Victims of those forced evictions who complain they were not granted adequate financial compensation for the loss of their homes demonstrated outside the parliament building on November 27 but were unable to prevent passage of the bill.