MOSCOW, November 15 (AVN) -- Director of the Federal Border Guard Service Konstantin Totsky has ordered to take enforced security measures on Russia's border with Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, a spokesman for the service headquarters said on Monday.
The order envisages establishment of enforced border outposts and patrols on the Georgian Military Road and the Kavkaz highway, as well as basic federal and local roads, mountaineous passes and pathways, the spokesman told the Military News Agency.
According to him, the measures are taken due to Chechen guerrilla withdrawal to the south of the republic and their attempts at capturing strategic canyons and heights. They pay special attention to the Dzheirakh canyon at the Chechnya-Ingushetia border which has a direct exit to the Georgian Military Road. Federals fear that a large group of guerrillas is likely to atempt at crossing the Russian border and entering Georgia's Akhmeta district, the spokesman said.
In order to avoid such scenario, Russian border guards maintain permanent contacts and exchange information with their Georgian colleagues. The Vladikavkaz border guard detachment was assigned a mission to exclude penetration of guerrillas through the North Ossetian section of the Russia-Georgia border.