Caucasus

Balkars Cling to Alpine Lifestyle

A North Caucasian mountain village defies the modern age, getting by on subsistence farming and knitting.

21 Jul 04

Deported ethnic Circassian wins the right to return to his ancestral homeland.

14 Jul 04

Baku authorities dismiss growing evidence of widespread police abuses.

14 Jul 04

Another armed clash is averted, but the peace process in South Ossetia has been badly damaged.

14 Jul 04

After a turbulent first half-year as president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili shows no signs of slowing down.

7 Jul 04

Muslim congregation say they will continue resisting police attempts to evict them from the mosque they have made their own.

7 Jul 04

A former Russian oligarch who is now Georgia’s economy minister plots the country’s revival.

7 Jul 04

Instead of serving the motherland, soldiers are being rented out as cheap labour.

7 Jul 04

In Mikheil Saakashvili’s rapid ascent to power, he has not put a foot wrong – so far.

7 Jul 04

The decline of what was once the biggest wholesale market in the South Caucasus marks a change in the way Armenia and Georgia trade with one another.

1 Jul 04

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