Caucasus

The Ghost of Progress

A summit meeting on Nagorny Karabakh in Paris this month is being hailed as the region's "Camp David".

2 Mar 01

The Council of Europe is poised to lend its weight to the Pankisi Gorge debacle

2 Mar 01

Turkey makes an unexpected bid to assume the role of peacemaker in the Nagorny Karabakh dispute

2 Mar 01

The Georgian government continues to deny claims that a remote mountain fastness is littered with Chechen guerrilla bases

19 Feb 01

COMMENT. What is the Council of Europe's political agenda in the South Caucasus now that all three states have been granted member status?

19 Feb 01

Fifty years on, Stalin's legacy continues to haunt the North Caucasus

19 Feb 01

Widespread unemployment is fuelling ethnic tensions in the Stavropolsky Kray

19 Feb 01

Top officials could be implicated in an arms smuggling ring operated from inside the Stavropol police force

9 Feb 01

Russians living in Mozdok have won little support for their bid to secede to the neighbouring Stavropolsky Kray

9 Feb 01

Some Russian observers suspect the FSB of having staged the abduction of an American aid worker as part of a broader political agenda

9 Feb 01

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