North Ossetia

Beslan Aid Row Deepens

The distribution of aid money for Beslan residents has been held up by wrangling over how it should be spent.

1 Dec 04

Governments of South Ossetia and Georgia try to make a compromise agreement work, but the situation on the ground remains tense.

17 Nov 04

Nurses hope to transfer skills learned in one war-torn region to their own homeland.

17 Nov 04

Republic is still dangerously polarised as Moscow invites the two presidential rivals for talks.

3 Nov 04

Worries of economic fallout as the dram surges against the country’s unofficial second currency – the US dollar.

21 Oct 04

Is a proposed relaxation of citizenship laws a benefit or a danger for Armenia?

13 Oct 04

Parliament begins to ponder president’s plan to send Armenians to Iraq.

6 Oct 04

How has the man the Kremlin calls “the world’s number-two terrorist” avoided being captured by the Russians for the last five years?

6 Oct 04

Concern grows that republic will be targeted by Islamic extremists while local Muslims say they are subject to groundless persecution.

29 Sep 04

Ethnically-mixed community in the Prigorodny Region on high alert.

15 Sep 04

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