By empty (4/2/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Moscow prosecutors have given their go-ahead to a criminal investigation into an attack on Kabardino- Balkaria Culture Minister Zaur Tutov under charges of inflicting bodily injuries. \"Nothing suggests thus far that the attack was motivated by ethnic enmity, but all theories will be checked,\" an official with Moscow\'s Eastern District Prosecutor\'s Office told Interfax. Tutov was beaten up by unidentified attackers following an impulsive argument.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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