General News, 1st prize
Andrei Soloviev
ITAR-TASS
ITAR-TASS
01 May, 1989
Among the ethnic Turkish population, mourners grieve victims of political unrest. As nationalists all over the Soviet Union clamoured for autonomy, ethnic strife hit many of the outlying republics where some 140 million non-Russians live.
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