RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ATTACKED AGAIN IN DUSHANBE.

A Russian major and an enlisted man of the 201st motor-rifle division were shot and critically wounded in Dushanbe yesterday. The attack follows the killing of a captain who was "rendering practical assistance" to the same division as a representative of Siberian Cossacks in contact with "Cossacks in Tajikistan." (Interfax, Itar-Tass, January 24-29) Authentic or self-styled Russian Cossacks have fought in several regional conflicts in the former USSR, but had not been observed in Tajikistan until now.

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