Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | yesterday
Police have freed the abducted son of the mayor of the town of Buinaksk in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, Russia's Investigative Committee said on Sunday.
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Police killed a militant who tried to plant a roadside bomb in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, the regional interior department said on Sunday.
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Environmentalists say crustaceans victims of pollution but demand also cited. By Idrak Abbasov on Pirallahi (CRS No. 520, 20-Nov-09)
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Mixed motives seen in proposed move to end three-year frontier closure. By Dimitri Avaliani in Tbilisi and Samvel Avagian in Yerevan (CRS No. 520, 20-Nov-09)
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
BY JOSHUA KUCERA Kazakhstan, Georgia and Azerbaijan all showed significant decreases in corruption over the past year, according to a recently published worldwide survey by a Berlin-based watchdog group. The survey also showed that Armenia's rating declined, and the rest of the Central Asian states remained near the bottom of the rankings.
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
EU and Russian leaders met in Stockholm on Wednesday for a summit dominated by energy issues, as Europe hopes to avoid an interruption of Russian natural gas supplies via Ukraine this winter. Sweden, current holder of the rotating European Union presidency, is also expected to press Moscow on human rights issues in the north Caucasus -- a sensitive subject -- as well as climate change, the global...
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
BY JESSICA POWLEY HAYDEN Many international and domestic observers worry that the recent convictions of two youth activist-bloggers in Azerbaijan are sounding the death knell for the democratization process in the South Caucasus country.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Onnik Krikorian is a British blogger, journalist, and photographer of Armenian decent who has been living in Yerevan, one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities, for the past 11 years. He is the Caucasus Editor for Global Voices where he amplifies the latest discussions taking place among bloggers in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia.
Pine River World News (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin. To Georgia's Good Fortune, Russia is Winning © Stanislav Mishin Source: Mat Rodina November 12, 2009 Since the mid 1990s and maybe even earlier, the leadership of Orthodox Christians Georgia has been in bed with the Saudi-backed, Western facilitated, Turkish trained Sunni Islamic Jihad in Chechnya and other parts of Russia's...
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
"In case of opening border with Armenia, Turkey will naturally attempt to influence internal political processes in Armenia," Neo-conservative leader finds.
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Prison authorities allow reporter in to check conditions following claims inmates are mistreated. By Lusine Musaelyan in Shushi (CRS No. 519, 13-Nov-09)
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Volunteers try to help bereaved youngsters still traumatised by the conflict. By Natia Kuprashvili in Tbilisi (CRS No. 519, 13-Nov-09)
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Young Armenian, born in Azerbaijan, faces bureaucratic struggle to gain citizenship rights. By Aytan Farhadova in Baku and Mammad-Sadiq Fataliyev in Sheki (CRS No. 519, 13-Nov-09)
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday described the level of corruption in the country's North Caucasus as "unprecedented" and promised to takes steps to tackle the problem.
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Russia and the South Ossetia are set to raise the issue of a possible Georgian attack on its former territories during the Geneva talks on situation in the Caucasus to begin on Wednesday.
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wellbeingnewseditor | 10/04/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Europe > Edited by Andy Porter: The deterioration of the human rights situation in Russia, especially the northern Caucasus, was the focus of a public hearing last week which involved Members of the European Parliament [MEPs] and Russian activists... Wellbeing Newsline > Magazine > Contributors > World > Europe > United Kingdom > England > Scotland > Northern Ireland > Wales > Greater...
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