November 7, 2003 - 19:42 AMT
RUSSIAN MILITARY BASE IN AKHALKALAKI REGION OF GEORGIA FUNCTIONING IN USUAL SERVICE REGIME
The leadership of the Russian military base dislocated in Armenian-populated Akhalkalaki region of Georgia refuted the information about the alertness introduced due to the tension arisen in Georgia after the parliamentary election. To note, the information was spread by A-info Akhalkalaki agency. The base command informed the journalists that usual every-day service regime is acting at the territory of the base, and ordinary admission regime is functioning in the local cantonment. As one of the leaders of the Armenian community of Georgia Van Bayburt told Regnum agency, in the view of the appointment of the new commander-in-chief of the Group of Russian Forces in the Transcausus, "greater strictness was displayed at the base territory" and since November 3 "no casual has been allowed to the territory of the base objects". In V. Bayburt's words, natives used to avail themselves of the cantonment infrastructure, polyclinic and shop particularly. Probably the stoppage of this practice caused the local journalist to make a conclusion regarding the alertness introduced.