Caucasus

Adygeia: Gold Magnate Makes His Mark

One of Russia's richest businessmen has made many friends and enemies in his first six months as president of the tiny republic of Adygeia

19 Jul 02

Ethnic Russians fear legislation introduced to bolster the Azerbaijani language will discriminate against them

19 Jul 02

War and poverty have made life increasingly difficult in the breakaway republic of Nagorny Karabakh

12 Jul 02

With unemployment running rife, the nation's intellectuals, craftsmen and refugees take to the streets in a thankless search for jobs

12 Jul 02

A decade of peace and improving community relations is celebrated in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia

12 Jul 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

Residents of a village with Islamist sympathies are in defiant mood, several days after police opened fire on local protestors

6 Jul 02

The once-solid relationship between the Armenian government and the diaspora appears to be under strain.

6 Jul 02

Former Austrian ambassador counters Albanian claims that Serb negotiators at the Rambouillet conference were opposed to a Kosovo settlement

6 Jul 02

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

4 Jul 02

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