Caucasus

Chechnya: New Methods, Same Old Abuses

A night-time campaign of kidnappings and murders continues to terrorise Chechnya.

5 Feb 04

Schoolteachers are the latest to protest against a big pay rise awarded to members of the Karabakh government

5 Feb 04

A new anti-corruption programme could help change Azerbaijan’s corrupt bureaucracy – if it is enforced.

29 Jan 04

A dispute is still raging over how many Ingush refugees deserve the right of return to North Ossetia.

29 Jan 04

New Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili begins a rethink of his country’s policy on Abkhazia.

29 Jan 04

Despite a New Year’s presidential pardon, Azerbaijan’s jails hold many political prisoners, critics say.

22 Jan 04

America is strongly backing a move to end Russia’s military presence in the republic – possibly so it can then send in its own personnel.

22 Jan 04

Thousands of Armenian women end up being sexually exploited in Turkey or the UAE – and the perpetrators are going unpunished.

15 Jan 04

The opposition grows bolder in Georgia’s dissident Black Sea province.

15 Jan 04

Another New Year in Chechnya offers no sign that the conflict is ending.

15 Jan 04

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