News Digest
ARMENIAN OFFICIALS STRESS BENEFITS OF GAS DEAL WITH RUSSIA
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Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Markarian denied on April 10 that the sale to Russia\'s Gazprom of the fifth unit of the Hrazdan thermal power plant will compromise Armenia\'s energy security, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported. The opposition Armenian Pan-National Movement released a statement alleging that the sale does endanger national security and was undertaken to preclude mass protests over rising gas prices in the run-up to the parliamentary election due in 2007. Markarian also denied any link between that sale and the planned increase in the price of natural gas Armenia buys from Russia.TWO MILITANTS KILLED IN SHOOT-OUT IN INGUSHETIA
By empty (4/11/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Police in Ingushetia surrounded a house in Nazran on April 11 where a group of militants was reportedly hiding and killed two of them in a one-hour shoot-out in which one police officer also died, ingushetiya.ru reported. A third militant was apprehended.CHINA TO FUND TAJIK HIGHWAY
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Tajikistan has negotiated an agreement with China under which Beijing will provide a loan of $269 million for road construction in Tajikistan, a source in the Tajik Transportation and Roads Ministry said. The loan, with an interest rate of 2 percent, will go toward rebuilding a highway linking Dushanbe and the Uzbek border, including a tunnel under the Shahriston mountain pass. (Avesta).GUNMEN KILL AFGHAN HEALTH WORKERS
By empty (4/10/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Unidentified gunmen have killed five health workers in an attack in north-west Afghanistan, officials say. A doctor and several nurses were among those killed in the attack on a clinic in Badghis province late on Sunday, governor Enayatullah Enayat said. Meanwhile in southern Helmand province, three people, including two policemen, have been killed in separate incidents.Visit also
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