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Friday, 09 August 2002
RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY BLAMES GEORGIA FOR MURDER OF RUSSIAN COLONEL
By empty (8/9/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Boris Malakhov said on 8 August that the Georgian authorities "are fully to blame" for the "brutal" murder in Tbilisi of Russian Colonel Igor Zaitsev. Zaitsev was killed by repeated blows to the head with a blunt instrument. The presumed murderer, who has denied killing Zaitsev, is David Zazashvili, an ethnic Georgian citizen of Russia who was one of Zaitsev's colleagues.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Boris Malakhov said on 8 August that the Georgian authorities "are fully to blame" for the "brutal" murder in Tbilisi of Russian Colonel Igor Zaitsev. Zaitsev was killed by repeated blows to the head with a blunt instrument. The presumed murderer, who has denied killing Zaitsev, is David Zazashvili, an ethnic Georgian citizen of Russia who was one of Zaitsev's colleagues. (Caucasus Press)