The Washington Post, September 25th, 1988
THE PROTESTS of Soviet Armenians constitute a great upheaval with the potential to shake the Kremlin to the core. Technically, the issue centers on a demand that an enclave heavy with Armenians be transferred from the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan to neighboring Armenia. But the effect is to open up the whole question of how the dominant Russian "nationality," now perhaps a minority in the country, relates to the many other ethnic groups in the Soviet Union. It is a question about the fundamental nature of the Soviet union. Last summer the Kremlin rejected demands to transfer the disputed encl...
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