Middle East

Nervous Caucasus Backs Washington over Iraq

Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia support United States to various degrees, but worry about war's impact on their own region.

20 Mar 03

The annual pilgrimage to Mecca this February brought big money to some Dagestanis, and a lot of trouble to others.

14 Mar 03

A row over leadership of the Azerbaijani football federation is virtually shutting down the whole national game

27 Feb 03

Chechen refugees fear they will be the losers in Georgia's campaign to clear the Pankisi Gorge of Islamic militants.

30 Jan 03

Georgia's pledge to allow the return of Meskhetian Turks has provoked widespread public opposition.

23 Jan 03

Forgotten by the outside world, 36 leprosy sufferers are fading away quietly in the small Azerbaijani village of Umbaki.

17 Jan 03

How deep does enthusiasm in the breakaway republic of Abkhazia for Russia run?

19 Dec 02

The Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan oil project may have been given the green light, but local environmentalists are still seeing red.

5 Dec 02

A quarrel between Georgians and Abkhaz over seizure of a Turkish trawler has put sea trade with the unrecognised republic under scrutiny.

28 Nov 02

The terror crisis in Moscow has given President Putin a new lease of political life.

31 Oct 02

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