Competing Plans of Chechen Politicians
Influential group of Chechen and Russian politicians continue to promote Chechnya peace plan, despite hardening of Moscow's policy towards the breakaway republic
Influential group of Chechen and Russian politicians continue to promote Chechnya peace plan, despite hardening of Moscow's policy towards the breakaway republic
The citrus fruit trade is the main means of survival for the Abkhaz since they broke away from Georgia.
Concern over relations with Moscow prompts the Kazak authorities to turn away Chechens asking to return to a former place of exile
Ingush uprooted by war with North Ossetia sceptical that new cooperation accord between the two republics will enable them to return.
Baku closes a Chechen envoy's office while Tbilisi fears a new Russian backlash.
Bucharest, Belgrade and Zagreb sign up to the construction of an oil pipeline linking the Black Sea to Western Europe.
Government criticised for planning to allow a Russian energy giant to have a monopoly over the country's gas supply.
The two breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are strengthening their anti-Georgian alliance.
Ultra-nationalists who forced cancellation of war crimes photographic exhibition have little for fear from the authorities.
Bucharest hopes its firm support for US action on Iraq and strong stand against suspected extremist groups will ease its path into NATO.