Russian officer charged with beating waiter in Tajikistan
| Publisher | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
| Publication Date | 2 February 2015 |
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February 02, 2015
By RFE/RL's Tajik Service
KULOB, Tajikistan – Prosecutors in Tajikistan have charged a Russian officer they say beat a man near the 201st military base's unit in the southern city of Kulob.
A local official told RFE/RL on February 2 that the suspect, idenified as Captain Chemizov, is suspected of severely beating a waiter at a restaurant in Kulob last week.
Last summer, two Russian officers from the 201st military base's unit in Dushanbe, the capital, were arrested on suspicion of killing a local man, Rahimjon Teshaboev. That investigation is continuing.
There are about 7,000 Russian soldiers deployed at three different sites that make upthe Russian base in Tajikistan.
A soldier at Russia's large base in Armenia, another ex-Soviet republic, is suspected in the brutal slaying of seven members of a single family near the facility last month.
The massacre sparked days of protests in Armenia.
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