Tensions Flare as Russian Soldier Seeks Asylum in Georgia.

Autor: OLESYA VARTANYAN, ELLEN BARRY; Olesya Vartanyan reported from Tbilisi, Georgia,, Ellen Barry from Moscow.
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Zdroj: New York Times. 1/28/2009, Vol. 158 Issue 54569, p13. 0p.
Abstrakt: A 21-year-old Russian soldier, sitting down with a Big Mac at a McDonald's here in the Georgian capital, said Tuesday that he had changed into civilian clothes and walked across the South Ossetian border into Georgia because he was fed up with his military service there. The soldier, Junior Sgt. Aleksandr Glukhov, a computer buff from Udmurtia, a central Russian republic, seemed unaware of the clamor he had prompted at home. As information about his action filtered out from Tbilisi, Russia's Defense Ministry contended that he had been abducted by Georgian forces and was being forced to discredit the army as ''information provocation.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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