RUSSIANS CONTINUE BLOCKADE OF AZERBAIJANI BORDER.

Russianborder guards continue to refuse to allow passage across the Azerbaijani-Russianborder to anyone who is not a citizen of one of these countries,Izvestiya reported August 2. As a result, a large numberof people remained in makeshift camps on both sides of the border.Moscow had imposed this arrangement in December 1994 to preventarms from flowing to Chechnya; customs officials there could notexplain why the rules remained in place.

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