By empty (10/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Several dozen members of the Georgian trade union of teachers demonstrated outside the Russian embassy in Tbilisi on Thursday demanding an end to what they called the persecution of Georgians by authorities in Russia. \"We protest against the open persecution of Georgians by the Russian authorities. Georgians in Russia have found themselves in the situation Jews were in in Nazi Germany in the 30s,\" one of the organizers, Manana Burchumelidze, told reporters.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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