Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Social Science in the Caucasus posts more details, including a video, on Creative Commons and comments on the importance of introducing the licensing concept to the South Caucasus. My Caucasus Knot also weighs in on the significance of promoting Creative Commons in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
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A Georgian spy has been detained in southern Russia, the Federal Security Bureau said Friday.Officials said the agent was involved in coordinating armed guerrilla groups in the Caucasus, Itar-Tass reported."Some time ago the activity of an agent of Georgian secret services -- Chechen-Kistin Ramzan Turkoshvili, 34, Russian citizen born in Georgia -- has been suppressed in the territory of the...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Russia's security service reportedly said Friday that it detained a man accused of spying for Georgia in the restive North Caucasus, adding to escalating tension between the former Soviet republics.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Brussels - NATO member states should stop providing arms to Georgia, as their actions are creating dangerous instability in the South Caucasus, Russia's top general said Thursday. "The only decision t...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
The outside world can help deter both Russian bullying and Georgian vote-rigging IF YOU have not heard of the Kodori Gorge, you may soon. A Georgian-controlled sliver of territory in the breakaway enclave of Abkhazia, it looks nastily like the flashpoint for a new hot war in the Caucasus. Russia, which protects the Abkhaz regime, insists that Georgia is planning to use Kodori to attack Abkhazia....
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - A police checkpoint has come under fire in Russia's troubled Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a source in local law enforcement agencies said. The accident occurred at 2.0...
Global Security (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Mounting Tensions in Abkhazia Could Spark Caucasus WarBy Peter Fedynsky Moscow14 May 2008Tensions are high in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region as all parties accuse one another of provocations that could lead to war across the volatile Caucasus Mountains. VOA Moscow Correspondent Peter Fedynsky examines a dispute that involves the interests of Russia, Georgia and the breakaway region's...
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
By Thomas de Waal, Caucasus Editor (15-May-08)
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Life in southern Abkhazia was already precarious, but now residents fear they will be caught at the centre of renewed conflict. By Irakly Lagvilava in Gali (CRS No. 444 15-May-08)
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
New president and government damaged by steep price hikes. By Naira Melkumian in Yerevan (CRS No. 444 15-May-08)
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
NAZRAN, May 14 (RIA Novosti) - Three police officers were killed as their car came under fire on Wednesday in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia, a police spokesman said. A group of unknow...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
ROSTOV-ON-DON, May 14 (RIA Novosti) - A couple and their landlady have been killed in a special operation in Nazran, the largest city in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia, local prosecuto...
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
"The Kosovo precedent caused chaos in the struggle for influence in Balkans and South Caucasus," Russian expert said.
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Abkhazia would be a problem for Georgia even without Russia. From today's Wall Street Journal Europe
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Social Science in the Caucasus examines statistics released by the US Citizenship and Immigration Service on the number of immigrant and nonimmigrant visas issued to citizens from the three South Caucasus countries. According to that data, Armenia has the most number of visas issued with Georgia second and Azerbaijan third.
