By empty (8/20/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Georgian Defence Ministry reported on Saturday that Russian military helicopters had violated its air space. A report by the ministry public relations department said “two Russian helicopters – a MI-8 helicopter with side number 69 and a combat helicopter MI-24 with side number 54 violated Georgian air space at 12:40 pm, Moscow time, on Saturday”. “The helicopters flew over the settlements of Khurcha and Anakliya (the Zugdidi region controlled by the Georgian side) and then flew towards the settlement of Sida in the Gali region (controlled by Abkhazia),” the report said.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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