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Researchers Denied Entry

The St. Petersburg Times

MOSCOW — Georgia on Tuesday denied entry to the head of the Russian State Archive and a Russian analyst as they arrived in Tbilisi to attend a conference, prompting four other Russians from their delegation to pull out of the event in protest.

Sergei Mironenko, head of the Russian State Archive and Nikolai Silayev, head of the Center of Caucasus Studies at the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Affairs, were turned back by Georgian border guards at the Tbilisi International Airport.

Both researchers were invited to Georgia by the Georgian Institute of Russian Studies, a nongovernmental organization established soon after the Russian military conflict with Georgia in August 2008.

Silayev said that he had visited Georgia several times before and after the conflict.

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