Caucasus

Chechnya: Ceasefire or Bluff?

Rebels have offered a unilateral ceasefire, but Moscow and its local allies have rejected it outright

9 Feb 05

President Saakashvili has appointed a new prime minister to replace the late Zurab Zhvania, but filling the space he left will be more difficult.

9 Feb 05

Freak accident removes key figure of Georgian revolution at a critical stage.

3 Feb 05

Opposition politicians in Tbilisi claim authorities are short-changing locals whose homes were damaged or destroyed.

3 Feb 05

Plan to grant Chechen administration wide economic powers is still in first draft, but it is already under fire from all sides.

3 Feb 05

Is the defence ministry weeding out officers for financial misdemeanours, or because they are viewed as disloyal to the regime?

3 Feb 05

Life and death of a radical Islamist leader from a small mountain village in the Caucasus.

3 Feb 05

Tskhinval blames Georgia for “provocations” designed to undermine the breakaway republic’s credibility.

26 Jan 05

Rivalry between two religious bodies blamed for thwarted Haj hopes of hundreds of Azerbaijani Muslims.

26 Jan 05

Dangerous radioactive cobalt lies practically unguarded in a Grozny chemical factory wrecked by war, poverty and lawlessness.

26 Jan 05

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