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    TWO DETAINED IN GEORGIA FOR RUSSIA ESPIONAGE CHARGES

    Xinhua General News Service
    November 1, 2010 Monday 5:55 AM EST
    China

    A local defense attorney has disclosed the identities of two Georgians
    detained by Georgian authorities for alleged espionage activities
    for Russia, local media reported on Monday.

    The InterPressNews service quoted lawyer Nana Tsuladze as identifying
    the clients as Armen Gevorkyan and Ruben Shikoyan.

    "I don't know (the) exact number of the detained," the lawyer told the
    news service, "What about my clients, they are ethnically Armenians,
    citizens of Georgia. Before their arrest, they worked in one of the
    companies inspecting cargoes and oil. Gevorkyan was director of the
    company. Shikoyan was his assistant."

    A foreign news service on Oct. 29 broke out the news of the detention
    of some 20 Georgian citizens detained for alleged spying activities
    but neither the Georgian foreign ministry nor the country's interior
    ministry has so far confirmed the incident.

    Georgia and Russia have seen bitter spy rows in the past. In 2006,
    Georgia detained four Russian servicemen on espionage charges before
    handing them over to Russia via OSCE. In March this year, Russia
    emitted sentences of lengthy imprisonment to one Georgian and two
    Russians for espionage charges.




    From: A. Papazian
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