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    RUSSIA PULLING OUT MILITARY HARDWARE FROM BATUMI BASE IN GEORGIA

    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    May 25 2006

    TBILISI, May 25 (Itar-Tass) - Russian troops at the Batumi base
    started dispatching military hardware to the Russian base Gyumri in
    Armenia on Thursday, Tass learnt at the headquarters of the Group of
    Russian Troops in Transcaucasia.

    The first train will bring to Gyumri 54 units of military materiel,
    communication trucks as well as some property. In 2006, this is
    already the third train with weapons and property of Russian troops.

    The two previous ones pulled out military property from the Akhalkalaki
    base. The headquarters reported that another six trains would depart
    from Batumi over the next few months.

    Last summer, Russia carried out the first stage of pulling out combat
    materiel and weapons from the Batumi base. Two landing ships dispatched
    to Russia 40 units of military hardware, including 12 tanks, the same
    number of air defence missile systems Kub, five military reconnaissance
    motor vehicles and three self-propelled missile vehicles Shilka.

    The Batumi base is to be closed down during 2008 in compliance with
    the Russian-Georgian understandings.
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