Uzbekistan

Ingush Fear Former Ossetian Neighbours

Ingush uprooted by war with North Ossetia sceptical that new cooperation accord between the two republics will enable them to return.

7 Nov 02

Baku closes a Chechen envoy's office while Tbilisi fears a new Russian backlash.

31 Oct 02

The two breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are strengthening their anti-Georgian alliance.

12 Sep 02

Ultra-nationalists who forced cancellation of war crimes photographic exhibition have little for fear from the authorities.

31 Aug 02

Bucharest hopes its firm support for US action on Iraq and strong stand against suspected extremist groups will ease its path into NATO.

28 Aug 02

Abkhazia’s ex-soldiers find themselves unemployed, depressed and even suicidal.

14 Aug 02

An upsurge of fighting on the Georgian-Chechnya border had sparked the worst quarrel in years between Tbilisi and Moscow.

9 Aug 02

Parties loyal to President Shevardnadze were humiliated in Georgia's local elections, amid scenes of chaos and claims of vote-rigging.

6 Jul 02

Hundreds of thousands of migrants in southern Russia are coming under pressure to leave the region

4 Jul 02

Tbilisi’s relations with Moscow worsen as hundreds of thousands of Abkhazians take up Russian citizenship.

27 Jun 02

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