TAJIKISTAN: RUSSIAN TROOPS CLASH WITH REBELS

Russian, Nat In the central Asian republic of Tajikistan, Russian troops have been fighting rebels opposed to the hardline Communist government supported by Moscow. The conflict has claimed the lives of troops who ve been killed on the mountain border with Afghanistan where the rebels have their bases. A ceasefire agreement is already in ruins and the Russian Foreign Ministry says that talks to prolong the agreement have collapsed. For these Russian soldiers charged with keeping the peace on t