Caucasus

Newspapers Join Wahhabi Witch-hunt

The local press finds it impossible to remain impartial in the face of mounting religious conflict

4 Jun 01

A disaffected priest is sowing the seeds of unrest in Russia's Armenian community

4 Jun 01

The soldiers' protest over pay and conditions is symptomatic of a growing malaise in Georgian society

29 May 01

A protest staged by disaffected guardsmen on the eve of Georgian Independence Day is followed by riots in downtown Tbilisi

29 May 01

Attempts to lure Grozny's residents back to the ruined capital have met with little success

29 May 01

Rival groups claim the Adygeans have no right to call the North Caucasus their "ethnic homeland"

21 May 01

Was Vardan Oskanian's faux pas a slip of the tongue or a shrewd political calculation?

21 May 01

An opposition coalition could force President Shevardnadze to rethink his local government bill

21 May 01

Gantamirov's rivals heave a collective sigh of relief as the Chechen leader abandons his Grozny stronghold

21 May 01

There is no longer any stigma attached to draft-dodging in the once warlike republic of North Ossetia

14 May 01

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