Caucasus

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Remote Caucasian village keeps a keen but sceptical eye on Putin election, in an area that has seen few benefits from the new Russia.

4 Mar 04

A wrangle between Russian suppliers leaves Azerbaijani consumers cold.

4 Mar 04

Groundswell of support for man believed to have exacted blood revenge on Swiss air traffic controller he blamed for 2002 plane tragedy.

4 Mar 04

Mikheil Saakashvili's anti-corruption campaign has claimed some high-profile victims and stirred controversy.

4 Mar 04

Government critics question independence of the country's new rights investigator.

4 Mar 04

Lending the West’s stamp of approval to Azerbaijan’s flawed TV legislation would do the country a disservice.

26 Feb 04

Doubts are being raised about how a wholesale lay-off of teachers in Armenia is being carried out.

26 Feb 04

Moscow’s attempt to conscript ethnic Chechens in Dagestan has run into difficulties.

26 Feb 04

Chechen refugees in Ingushetia’s tent camps are coming under intense pressure go home.

26 Feb 04

Sixty years on, there will be little public commemoration of the Stalinist deportations of the Chechen people.

21 Feb 04

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