| 单词 | Caucasus |
| 例句 | In those days when Prometheus had just given fire to men and when he was first bound to the rocky peak on Caucasus, he had a strange visitor. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a national project to select landing sites for future passenger airports in the Crimea, Caucasus, and Sea of Azov areas. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The ocean nymphs who visited Prometheus on the crag in the Caucasus spoke only the most ordinary common sense when they said to him:— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Spassky ensconced himself in the Caucasus while Fischer settled in the Catskills, more than seven thousand miles away. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We are at the gates to the Caucasus, proclaims Hauptmann’s radio, we have taken oil fields, we will take Svalbard. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Some nights in the Caucasus were so foggy that the 588th’s ground crew had to fire flares to show the pilots where to land when they came back from their missions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “And now, from the steppes of Russia, get ready for the brave Cossacks of the Caucasus!” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In 1932 and 1933 it took away the food crop harvest and next season's seed in the Soviet states that produced most of the nation's grain—Ukraine, the Caucasus, and Kazakhstan. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z On his way to Atlas to ask him about the Golden Apples, Hercules came to the Caucasus, where he freed Prometheus, slaying the eagle that preyed on him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The 588th was sent to help prevent the Germans from taking over the Caucasus region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, an important source of oil for the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She had been collecting these plants her entire life, and some of them were deliciously exotic: saffron from the high plateaus of Persia, rhubarb-currant from the Caucasus Mountains, and ginger from the Far East. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z They were supposed to live around the Caucasus and their chief city was Themiscryra. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Armenia, which became an independent republic in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union, is a small, landlocked nation in the southwest Caucasus, at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z He was a real patriot of the Caucasus. 2009-12-29T13:04:00Z Much of the humor comes from the funny things the choreographer hears in the music; American jazz moves have reached this part of the Caucasus. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z But some ambitious plans in the Caucasus are trying to change that fast. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-11T20:59:51Z It would also prove to be an excellent bulwark against the day of wine tastings in the shadow of the Caucasus Mountains that lay ahead. High in the Mountains and Monasteries of Georgia 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z A wine revival at the foot of the Caucasus. 52 Places to Go in 2015 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Rkatsiteli is grown in some states in the eastern United States, but its homeland is Georgia, the nation in the Caucasus region that lays claim to being the birthplace of wine. Perspective | The 12 best bargain wines of 2018 cost as little as $9. What are you waiting for? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z An oenophile goes in search of the finest wines grown in Georgia, not here but in the Caucasus. Travel: Philip Marsden’s ‘Rising Ground’ and More 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z The chief insurgent group fighting for an Islamist state in the mountainous north Caucasus is known as the "Caucasus Emirate." Assassination bid on Putin foiled, Ukraine says 2012-02-27T10:40:09Z This was the first I’d tasted from the former Soviet republic in the Caucasus region. An international wine is fine, but I’d rather taste the place in Virginia 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Restaurants blend the traditions of the Armenian Caucasus with the Middle East as refugees from Syria and Iraq make their impact. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z What exactly were the differences between Teutons, Anglo-Saxons, Celts and other identifiably white people, and did they all originate in the Caucasus? What is “white supremacy”? A brief history of a term, and a movement, that continues to haunt America 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z OK, this is the very far fringes of Europe: the small shepherds’ village of Khinaliq in the Caucasus mountains, the highest village in Azerbaijan. 10 of the best off-grid adventures in Europe: readers’ tips 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z A wine revival at the foot of the Caucasus. 52 Places to Go in 2015 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z I recently went back to the Caucasus region, to Georgia and Azerbaijan, to repeat my childhood journey, this time gathering research for a cookbook. A Case for Eating Herbs as if They Were Vegetables 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z He was not especially duplicitous toward his colleagues, nor was he especially effective in his early organization of the workers’ movements in the Caucasus. ‘Stalin,’ by Stephen Kotkin 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Turkey, like many countries in Eastern Europe, Asia Minor and the Caucasus, is producing delicious wines by combining indigenous grape varieties grown for centuries with more familiar international varieties such as cabernet sauvignon and merlot. Four ways to enjoy a very good vintage of Beaujolais 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z Trapped in Chechnya in December 1999 during an aerial bombing campaign by the Russian Army, she and a young Russian photographer were forced to hike for days through the snowbound Caucasus to the Georgian border. She Reported From the World’s Combat Zones, at the Cost of Her Life 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Georgia’s main wine region is Kakheti, in the eastern part of the country, where the Caucasus mountains stretch from northwest to southeast. Why should you get to know Georgian wines? Because they’re exciting. 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Adjustments were made in 2007 on those boundaries to allow the nations of the Caucasus to participate. How Eurovision helps define Europe’s boundaries (and why Ukraine will likely win) 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Each spring, as it flow from the Caucasus Mountains to the Black Sea, the Inguri River deposits sediment in such volume that it creates small islands in midstream, which then wash away in the fall. First Build an Island, Then Make a Film 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z On the same day, a museum to Mikhail Lermontov, another Russian writer famous for his depictions of the Caucasus, also reopened in Chechnya. 2009-12-29T13:04:00Z The nationalist account of Russia's role in the Caucasus is easy to demolish, as are the Kremlin's repeated claims that the conflict is over. Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the?Caucasus by Oliver Bullough 2010-05-07T23:17:00Z These include trees and shrubs native to the Caucasus and more plants from Southern states. How gardeners can combat climate change 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z We hired a private driver and guide through Caucasus Travel and — given the condition of some roads, absence of road signs and language barrier — this was a fabulous decision. What a Trip: Georgian wine and the spirit of love on a vacation to the Caucasus 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z For many years, the picture confused art historians, because it looks like a landscape — a mountain scene in the Caucasus, no less, replete with a horse drinking from a stream. Review | Degas had a gift for conveying the truth — even when he was making it all up 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Hailing from the Caucasus and enjoyed for centuries throughout the world, kefir is prized for its many health benefits. Much of the world drinks yogurt to stay cool. We should join in. 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Costume details make Georgia in the Caucasus a likely candidate. Auctions: Century-Old Vandalism of Islamic Art, and Its Price 2011-04-15T12:00:27Z One, a witty video by the young Russian artist Taus Makhacheva, shows an acrobat transferring a museum’s worth of Socialist Realist paintings, by tightrope, from one Caucasus peak to another. Venice Biennale: Whose Reflection Do You See? 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z It’s a familiar scene in Georgia, a Caucasus country where haunting three-voice chants reverberate through incense-heavy air in ancient churches packed with the faithful. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z She is performing an Ancient Persian dance, which was described by the Greek writer Pollux and is still performed in the Caucasus. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z An obituary informed us that Lister died aged 49 while holidaying with Walker in the Caucasus mountains. Last night's TV 2010-06-01T05:45:00Z But it is among the people of the Caucasus and Central Asia where aromatics are king. A Case for Eating Herbs as if They Were Vegetables 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z As a young soldier fighting in the Caucasus and, later, in Crimea, he wrote in his diaries about the gruesome scenes of violence he witnessed up close. Leo Tolstoy vs. the Police 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Friedman, who lives in Israel and has covered the Mideast and the Caucasus for the Associated Press and other publications, explains that the codex’s significance to Jewish faith and identity is more than symbolic. ?People Who Eat Darkness?: The disappearing blonde 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z Orange wines are identified with the country of Georgia, in the Caucasus Mountains, and are probably as old as wine itself. You say ‘orange’ wines, the Georgians say ‘amber.’ Here’ are the ones you should know. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z But at least this raw, romantic, almost Byronic portrait of the Caucasus mountain peoples contains an implicit acknowledgment of the difficulty of allotting roles of persecutor and victim. Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the?Caucasus by Oliver Bullough 2010-05-07T23:17:00Z There is the defensive wall legendarily built across Syria, or across the Caucasus, by Alexander the Great and his architect Dinocrates. The Walls Before Trump’s Wall 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z They flew in a mountain resort developer from Whistler, British Columbia, Paul Mathews, to evaluate the potential of the Caucasus for winter tourism. A Test Run at Russia’s Olympic Hopeful 2013-12-20T16:51:32Z They are literally Caucasian since their family originates from the northern Caucasus region. I am not the Tsarnaevs 2013-04-22T15:19:00Z The character of Memed was drawn in part from Mr. Kemal’s memory of his mother’s brother, an outlaw named Mayro — “the best-known outlaw in the eastern Anatolia, Iran and Caucasus areas.” Yasar Kemal, Turkish novelist and voice against political injustice, dies 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z You might think of northern Italy or the Caucasus region of Georgia. Game on, Finger Lakes wines 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The channel, Current Time, is available on cable, satellite and digital platforms and aimed at millions of Russian speakers in Russia, the Baltics, Ukraine, the Caucasus, central Asia and elsewhere. Radio Free Europe, Voice of America launch new Russian-language TV channel 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The Amazons were likely Scythian nomads who travelled the territory north of the Black Sea—roughly between the Balkans, to the west, and the Caucasus, to the east. The Real Amazon Warriors 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The chilly mountain region where they reside is in a mining town in North Ossetia, a Russian republic in the North Caucasus, an area still raw with the memories of civil warfare and extremist violence. ‘Unclenching the Fists’ Review: The Cost of Freedom 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Except for areas near the Ukraine border or in the long-embattled North Caucasus, there are no major Western advisories against travel to Russia. Fall of Ruble Benefits Tourists to Russia 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The same tension contaminates Oliver Bullough's account of three centuries of conflict in the Caucasus. Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the?Caucasus by Oliver Bullough 2010-05-07T23:17:00Z His sound is drawn not from the Caucasus or Russia but from a rich well of Western European Romantic melody, and his ariosos are the opera’s best-known excerpts. It Was Russia’s Most Popular Opera. Then It Disappeared. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z I then often wander over to the vendors from the Caucasus region. | Explorer: Unforgettable Foods, from Austrian Apricots to Parisian Butter 2011-09-30T19:03:18Z In a few years, as more wines from the Caucasus become available, we may be extolling Armenian terroir. An international wine is fine, but I’d rather taste the place in Virginia 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z My journey started in Tabriz, in north-west Iran, a place of culinary connection for centuries, a trading crossroads connecting the Caucasus, the Middle East and Europe. A foodie tour of Iran: it's poetry on a plate 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z He traveled up to 200,000 miles a year for “60 Minutes,” including a 1975 visit to the Caucasus Mountains for a story about the region’s many centenarians. Morley Safer, longest-serving correspondent for CBS’s ‘60 Minutes,’ dies at 84 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z I had come to the breakaway Southern Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh expecting a land of extremes. Explorer: Off the Map in Nagorno-Karabakh, a Region in the Southern Caucasus 2012-09-21T17:31:32Z Russia’s tallest peaks are along its southern border with Georgia, in the Caucasus mountain range. A Test Run at Russia’s Olympic Hopeful 2013-12-20T16:51:32Z During the first few thousand years of Jewish life, challah included everything from rich layered breads baked overnight in Yemen, pita pockets in Syria and lepeshka flatbreads in the Caucasus. A Twist on the Traditional Challah 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z This area is the Caucasus, thought by many to be one of the points where wine originated. 10 Grapes Worth Knowing Better 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z To the east, lining the entire horizon like a curtain, were the hulking Greater Caucasus, shrouded in haze that left their snow-capped peaks floating like a long, wispy cloud. High in the Mountains and Monasteries of Georgia 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z But some ambitious plans in the Caucasus are trying to that fast. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z The collective’s activities are all rooted in the giant swath of land between the former Berlin Wall and the Great Wall of China, including countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus. These Artists Bring Pickles to the Party 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z In his “Notes From the Caucasus,” the stark and appalling descriptions of what he saw on the Eastern Front recall Goya’s famous etchings of the disasters of war. Review | A fascinating look inside the journal of a controversial German war hero 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Ultimately, Russia is both the villain of the Caucasus and its victim. Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the?Caucasus by Oliver Bullough 2010-05-07T23:17:00Z In a small corner of the war, a 20-year-old lieutenant from the Caucasus is sentenced to death for cowardice: he failed to deliver dispatches when caught in the inevitable Panzer onslaught. Battling on: what Russia's unrelenting appetite for second world war films means 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Before my two-week trip to Georgia and Armenia, I could tell you very little about the past of this landlocked Caucasus nation a quarter the size of Pennsylvania. A Crash Course in Armenian History 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z “Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was absolutely against Russian military policy in the Caucasus,” said Mr. Zagibov in a telephone interview, using the author’s full Russian name. 2009-12-29T13:04:00Z She’s an expert on Central Asia and the Caucasus — and the Russian mob. ‘It’s John against the world right now’ Here the setting is the Caucasus, the mountainous region between Europe and Asia, peopled in the ballet by Cossacks, troubadours, women in Russian doll outfits, elves, nymphs and spirits. Guillaume Bart’s ‘La Source,’ From Paris Opera Ballet 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Suspicions also focused on Ramzan A. Kadyrov, the pugnacious leader of Chechnya, a territory in the Caucasus that fought two wars with Russia but is now run by a Kremlin loyalist. Why Anna Politkovskaya Was a Pillar of Press Freedom 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z An ancient walled city straddling a narrow pass between the Caucasus mountains and the Caspian Sea, Derbent still continues to play host to one of the country's oldest Jewish communities though. Anti-Semitic riot in Russia's Dagestan leaves some local Jews shaken 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Israel raised its travel warning for Russia's North Caucasus region, which includes Dagestan, to its highest level. Putin blames the West, Ukraine after mob storms Russian airport to 'catch' Jews 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z The Morning Dagestan is an anti-Russian and Islamist channel which advocates for an end to what it calls "Moscow's occupation regime" in the Caucasus. How social media fuelled antisemitic violence in Dagestan, Russia 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z The unrest followed several other anti-Semitic incidents in recent days in Russia's North Caucasus region in response to Israel's war against Hamas militants in Gaza. Russia accuses Ukraine after mob storms Dagestan airport 'to catch' Jews 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Peskov said that “ill-wishers” had used widely seen images of suffering in Gaza to stir people up in the predominantly Muslim region in the north Caucasus. Kremlin: Dagestan airport violence result of 'outside influence' 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z One of a string of enclaves of so-called Mountain Jews that pepper both Russia's Caucasus and neighbouring Azerbaijan, Derbent's Jews still speak a dialect of Persian that evokes their hometown's rich history. Anti-Semitic riot in Russia's Dagestan leaves some local Jews shaken 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z The unrest followed several other anti-Israel incidents in recent days in Russia's North Caucasus region in response to Israel's war against Hamas militants in Gaza. Police take control of Russia's Dagestan airport after anti-Israeli protests 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Regional leaders in two other areas of the northern Caucasus called for calm. Russian security forces remove pro-Palestinian protesters from Dagestan airport 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Makhachkala is one of several areas in the north Caucasus region that are home to large Muslim communities. Russian security forces remove pro-Palestinian protesters from Dagestan airport 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Regional leaders in Dagestan and in two other areas of the northern Caucasus called for calm. Russian security forces remove pro-Palestinian protesters from Dagestan airport 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Since then, the two South Caucasus countries have both declared a willingness to sign a peace deal, though progress has been fitful and regular border skirmishes have continued. Armenia's PM Pashinyan says he hopes for Azerbaijan peace deal 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z There have also been reports on social media of small anti-Israeli gatherings over the weekend in Dagestan and across the North Caucasus in Russia's south. Police take control of Russia's Dagestan airport after anti-Israeli protests 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z The unrest followed several other anti-Israel incidents in North Caucasus sparked by Israel's war against Hamas militants in Gaza. Russian security forces remove pro-Palestinian protesters from Dagestan airport 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Moscow has long seen itself as the guarantor of Armenia's security in the volatile South Caucasus, a region crisscrossed with oil and gas pipelines. Armenia sees no advantage in keeping Russian military bases -PM to WSJ 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Iran's foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, said before the meeting that the talks represented a "historic opportunity.... The war in South Caucasus has ended, and it is time for peace and cooperation." Iran hosts Armenia-Azerbaijan talks, Russia says main issue resolved in Nagorno-Karabakh 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z On its website, the defence ministry of the mostly ethnically Turkic south Caucasus state said the manoeuvres marking the centenary of the Turkish republic would take place on Oct. 23-25 in several regions. Azerbaijan to host military exercises with Turkey next week 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Court documents viewed by The Associated Press show he is from the Ingushetia region in Russia’s Caucasus Mountains. France’s Macron holds security meeting amid heightened alert after deadly school stabbing 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z There were also reports on social media of small anti-Israeli gatherings over the weekend in Dagestan and across the North Caucasus in Russia's south. Russian security forces remove pro-Palestinian protesters from Dagestan airport 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Court documents viewed by The Associated Press show the suspect, identified by prosecutors as Mohammed M., is from the Ingushetia region in Russia’s Caucasus Mountains, which neighbors Chechnya. Louvre Museum and Versailles Palace evacuated after bomb threats with France on alert 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z The flights rattled Armenian officials in Yerevan, long wary of the strategic alliance between Israel and Azerbaijan, and shined a light on Israel’s national interests in the restive region south of the Caucasus Mountains. Israeli arms quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh, to the dismay of region’s Armenians 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z He added that “our agenda is peace in the Caucasus, peace in the region, cooperation, shared benefits, and today, we demonstrate that.” Armenian exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh ebbs as Azerbaijan moves to reaffirm control 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z In a six-week war in 2020, Azerbaijan took back back parts of the region in the south Caucasus Mountains along with surrounding territory that Armenian forces had captured earlier. Armenian exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh ebbs as Azerbaijan moves to reaffirm control 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Aliyev's actions have loosened Russia's decades-long grip on the strategically important South Caucasus region which is crisscrossed with oil and gas pipelines, lies between the Black and Caspian seas, and borders Iran, Turkey and Russia. Insight: In taking Karabakh, Azerbaijan's president avenged his father 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Nagorno-Karabakh, with a population of about 120,000, is a mountainous, ethnic Armenian region inside Azerbaijan in the southern Caucasus Mountains. Why this week’s mass exodus from embattled Nagorno-Karabakh reflects decades of animosity 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Azerbaijan's lightning military operation triggered an exodus unparalleled in the South Caucasus since the war in which Armenians took over the territory as the Soviet Union broke up, and hundreds of thousands of Azeris fled. More than half of Nagorno-Karabakh's ethnic Armenians have left 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z After a six-week war in 2020, Azerbaijan took back back parts of the region in the south Caucasus Mountains along with surrounding territory that Armenian forces had captured earlier. Armenian exodus from Nagorno-Karabakh ebbs as Azerbaijan moves to reaffirm control 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z The Karabakh crisis has shifted alliances in the South Caucasus region, a patchwork of ethnicities wedged between the Caspian and the Black seas where Russia, the United States, Turkey and Iran vie for influence. Tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians rush to flee Nagorno-Karabakh 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z The mountainous region in the South Caucasus has been supported by Armenia - but also by its ally, Russia. Nagorno-Karabakh: Almost 30,000 refugees have fled to Armenia 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z The Azerbaijani victory changes the balance of power in the South Caucasus region, a patchwork of ethnicities crisscrossed with oil and gas pipelines where Russia, the United States, Turkey and Iran are jostling for influence. US calls on Azerbaijan to safeguard Armenians as thousands flee Karabakh 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Its victory and the surrender of Karabakh's weapons change the contours of the South Caucasus, where Russia, the United States, Turkey and Iran all vie for influence. More than half of Nagorno-Karabakh's ethnic Armenians have left 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z “The Karabakh problem ... brought the United States and the European Union to the Caucasus,” Shevchenko said. 'Staying, for us, is impossible.' Thousands flee Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Nagorno-Karabakh - a mountainous region in the South Caucasus - is recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan, but has been controlled by ethnic Armenians for three decades. Nagorno-Karabakh: Ethnic Armenians leave amid cleansing fear 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z Azerbaijani authorities reported Saturday that they shipped over 60 tons of fuel that same day through the South Caucasus country’s territory, through a road leading from the city of Aghdam with Nagorno-Karabakh’s regional capital, Stepanakert. Aid shipments and evacuations as Azerbaijan reasserts control over breakaway province 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z What happens next to the men, women and children in this corner of the South Caucasus is a source of increasing anxiety. Panic in Nagorno-Karabakh but Azerbaijan rejects fears of ethnic cleansing 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z It could also change the balance of power in the South Caucasus, a region crossed by oil and gas pipelines where Russia, the United States, Turkey and Iran jostle for influence. Karabakh Armenians say no deal yet with Azerbaijan, first food delivery arrives 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Russia, which has military facilities, including an airbase, in Armenia, has signalled it has no intention of withdrawing its forces from the South Caucasus, a region crisscrossed with oil and gas pipelines. Questions about Russia's clout in ex-USSR grow after Karabakh crisis 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z But if people in the Caucasus already had wine grapes, why didn't they bring them to Europe? Wine’s True Origins Are Finally Revealed 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Aliyev said on Wednesday that Armenia's restraint in not trying to block Baku's offensive would remove an obstacle to peace between the two Caucasus neighbours. Karabakh Armenians seek promises before giving up weapons to Azerbaijan 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Aliyev said this would remove an obstacle to wider peace negotiations between the two Caucasus neighbours. Armenia needs peace, PM says after Azerbaijan retakes Karabakh 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Following the ceasefire, Azerbaijan intends to bring the breakaway region in the South Caucasus - where an estimated 120,000 ethnic Armenians live - under full control. Nagorno-Karabakh: Fresh reports of gunfire despite ceasefire 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z The anger felt by some Russians over what they view as their declining influence in the South Caucasus was amplified by the killing of five Russian peacekeepers in an apparent accident involving Azerbaijani forces. Questions about Russia's clout in ex-USSR grow after Karabakh crisis 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Sadly, it is almost impossible to trace a current varietal back to western Asia or the Caucasus, the two early domestication centers. Wine’s True Origins Are Finally Revealed 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z It could also change the delicate balance of power in the South Caucasus region, a patchwork of nations and ethnicities where Russia, the United States, Turkey and Iran are jostling for influence. Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan meets with Armenians after ceasefire, gunshots heard 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Russia sees itself as the security guarantor in the South Caucasus, but its influence is eroding. Explainer: Nagorno-Karabakh: tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan explained 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Some 120,000 ethnic Armenians live in the South Caucasus enclave, recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan. Nagorno-Karabakh forces agree Azerbaijan demand to disarm 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z After months of rising tensions in the Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus, Azerbaijan sent troops backed by artillery strikes into the region in an attempt to bring the breakaway region to heel. US calls for Azerbaijan to halt Karabakh attack, Russia urges return to ceasefire 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Other investigators thought domestication first happened in the Caucasus. Wine’s True Origins Are Finally Revealed 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Armenia has complained loudly that Russia's war in Ukraine has distracted it from what Moscow itself says is its role as the guarantor of security in the South Caucasus. Explainer: What is happening between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh? 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The Caucasus republic, which says it is committed to joining the EU, was denied candidate status last year even as Ukraine and Moldova received it. Georgia accuses ex-official of plotting from Ukraine to oust Tbilisi government 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z He said Russia would stay in contact with both Yerevan and Baku and would remain a reliable guarantor of security in the South Caucasus. Kremlin says Karabakh tensions rising, Armenia warns of 'critical' humanitarian situation 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z It was not clear whether Baku's actions would trigger a full-scale conflict dragging in Armenia, but the fighting in Karabakh could alter the geopolitical balance in the South Caucasus. US calls for Azerbaijan to halt Karabakh attack, Russia urges return to ceasefire 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Armenia hosts a Russian military base and is Moscow's only strategic ally in the volatile South Caucasus, a region crisscrossed with oil and gas pipelines. Russia's rift with old ally Armenia deepens doubts about its clout in ex-USSR 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Moscow insists that it intends to remain the principal guarantor of security in the Caucasus. Russia protests to Armenia as tensions rise over disputed Caucasus region 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Russia summoned the Armenian ambassador on Friday to present a protest about what it deemed "unfriendly steps" as tension in the South Caucasus surged over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Los Angeles City Council acts to spare Marilyn Monroe house from demolition 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z He said Moscow, distracted by its war with Ukraine, had been unable to deliver and was winding down its role in the South Caucasus. Russia issues 'harsh' protest to Armenia over range of 'unfriendly' actions 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z It has a military base in Armenia and sees itself as the pre-eminent power in the South Caucasus region, which until 1991 was part of the Soviet Union. Armenia to exercise with US troops next week in sign of frustration with Russia 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Russia has a military base in Armenia and sees itself as the pre-eminent power in the South Caucasus region, which until 1991 was part of the Soviet Union. Armenia to exercise with US troops next week, Russia voices concern 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Russia summoned the Armenian ambassador on Friday to present a protest about what it deemed "unfriendly steps" as tension in the South Caucasus surged over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Russia protests to Armenia as tensions rise over disputed Caucasus region 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z The Kremlin on Tuesday rejected a suggestion by Armenia's prime minister that Russia had failed to protect Armenia in its standoff with neighbouring Azerbaijan and was winding down its role in the wider South Caucasus. Brazil's Lula legalizes more Indigenous reservations in Amazon 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Moscow responded by insisting that it intended to remain the principal guarantor of security in the Caucasus, which also includes Azerbaijan and Georgia. Russia issues 'harsh' protest to Armenia over range of 'unfriendly' actions 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z The Kremlin on Tuesday rejected a suggestion by Armenia's prime minister that Russia had failed to protect Armenia in its standoff with neighbouring Azerbaijan and was winding down its role in the wider South Caucasus. Gunshots fired at Germany's Wuppertal central station, search for perpetrators - FOCUS 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z The Kremlin on Tuesday rejected a suggestion by Armenia's prime minister that Russia had failed to protect Armenia in its standoff with neighbouring Azerbaijan and was winding down its role in the wider South Caucasus. United Airlines lifts ground stop after IT issue 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z The Kremlin on Tuesday rejected a suggestion by Armenia's prime minister that Russia had failed to protect Armenia in its standoff with neighbouring Azerbaijan and was winding down its role in the wider South Caucasus. US says North Korea will 'pay a price' for any weapons supplies to Russia 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z The Kremlin on Tuesday rejected a suggestion by Armenia's prime minister that Russia had failed to protect Armenia in its standoff with neighbouring Azerbaijan and was winding down its role in the wider South Caucasus. Prosecution urges conviction in impeachment trial of Texas Republican Paxton 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Pashinyan had said Armenia felt Russia was pulling back from the South Caucasus, which includes Azerbaijan and Georgia. Kremlin dismisses Armenian suggestion that Russia is quitting South Caucasus 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Pashinyan also said Armenia felt Russia was pulling back from the wider South Caucasus region, which includes his country. Kremlin dismisses Armenian PM's suggestion that Russia is quitting South Caucasus 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Despite having so much in common culturally, the two South Caucasus states of Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought for control of this land for decades in wars that have cost tens of thousands of lives. Nagorno-Karabakh: 'People are fainting queuing up for bread' 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Fewer visitors to Crimea have meant more for Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea and Dagestan in Russia's north Caucasus region, he said. Russian tourism in Crimea is down, but many still shrug off risks 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z In the Caucasus, where Russia vied with the Ottoman and Persian empires for power, the Muslim Circassians, who had inhabited the area for millennia, resisted Russian domination. How Russian colonialism took the Western anti-imperialist Left for a ride 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z The Russian defence ministry said on Monday it had replaced the head of its peacekeeping forces in the South Caucasus, the second change in the space of a few months. Kremlin dismisses Armenian suggestion that Russia is quitting South Caucasus 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z After the fall of the Soviet Union, he served in the North Caucasus with the Russian army and then in SOBR, a quick reaction special forces unit of the Russian interior ministry. Andrei Troshev: who is Wagner mercenary Putin wants to replace Prigozhin? 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z The Kremlin has relied on Kadyrov to keep the North Caucasus region stable after two devastating separatist wars. Russian journalist sustained a brain injury and fractures during a brutal beating in Chechnya 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z The Kremlin has relied on Chechnya’s strongman leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, to keep the North Caucasus region stable after two devastating separatist wars. Masked assailants attack journalist and lawyer in Russia’s Chechnya province 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z I would guess the independence movements along the Volga and in the North Caucasus are watching Moscow’s weakness very carefully now. Russia: All eyes on Moscow’s weakness 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z We know that in the past 15 months, around 155,000 Russians received temporary residence permits in, collectively, EU countries, in several countries of the Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia. Why are people leaving Russia, who are they, and where are they going? 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z The tiny ex-Soviet nation in the southern Caucasus region has close security and economic ties to Russia, which have been further strengthened by its decades-long dispute with neighbouring Azerbaijan over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia is not Russia's ally in Ukraine war, says PM Pashinyan 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The two Caucasus neighbours have held several meetings in recent months as they seek to resolve a decades-long dispute over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. EU hopes for signs of Azeri-Armenian goodwill, more talks planned 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Although Georgian officials welcomed the resumption of flights, some Georgians who want the South Caucasus country to distance itself from Moscow in favour of the European Union demonstrated against it in central Tbilisi on Sunday. Georgia's flagship airline bans president over Russia flights criticism - TASS 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Other areas, like the Caucasus, proved more contentious. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Ogan, 55, is a former parliament member and expert on the Caucasus who speaks Russian and earned a doctorate in politics and international relations from a Moscow university. He Lost Turkey’s Presidential Election, but Could Swing the Runoff 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Charles Michel, president of the EU's Council, said the leaders made progress on issues including return of prisoners, demarcation of borders and access through each other's territory to reach isolated regions in the Caucasus. EU says latest Armenia-Azerbaijan talks should build momentum for peace 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z But Mr. Putin and Mr. Erdogan’s partnership has always been based on mutual self-interest rather than ideological affinity, and the two countries compete for influence in the Caucasus and Middle East. An Erdogan Loss in Turkey Would Stir Relief in the West and Anxiety in Moscow 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z The latest clashes are also seen as a test of Russia's ability to influence events in the South Caucasus. One Armenian soldier killed in new clash ahead of peace talks with Azerbaijan 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Fighting in the Caucasus between the Russians and the Ottomans began in 1914. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The 55-year-old nationalist politician, considered an outsider in the presidential race, is a former academician and expert on Russia and the Caucasus region. A look at the candidates in Turkey’s presidential elections 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z "The leaders shared a common willingness for a South Caucasus at peace. I commend their respective efforts," Michel said in a statement on the EU Council website. EU says latest Armenia-Azerbaijan talks should build momentum for peace 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Russia began requiring visas of arriving Georgian nationals in 2000, citing a risk of terrorism in the North Caucasus, where it was fighting a war in Chechnya at the time. Russia eases travel restrictions on Georgian nationals, in the latest sign of thawing ties. 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Russia allows citizens of most former Soviet republics visa-free access but imposed a visa regime on Georgians in 2000, citing the risk of terrorism in the North Caucasus region. Russia restores visa-free access for Georgians, lifts flight ban 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Haydar declared a religious war against the Christian residents of the Caucasus, but in order to reach them, he had to pass through the territory of the Shirvanshahs, who were allied with his enemies. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Washington is hosting this week the foreign ministers of the two South Caucasus rivals. Blinken says Armenia and Azerbaijan make 'tangible progress' in peace talks 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The Biden administration is hosting risky peace talks this week between bitter South Caucasus rivals Armenia and Azerbaijan, hoping to avert a second major war in Eastern Europe with the two sides far apart. U.S. tries to stop war between Armenia, Azerbaijan in already volatile Eastern Europe 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z When the Bolsheviks took over Azerbaijan, Armenia agreed to Bolshevik control, ushering in the Sovietisation of the whole of the Caucasus. Explainer: What is Nagorno-Karabakh - and why are tensions rising? 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z “The genetics cover the entirety of the steppe and its neighbors,” Jeong says, from the Caucasus Mountains to the Siberian steppe. Politically savvy princesses wove together a vast ancient empire 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z At the time, he governed only Azerbaijan and part of the Caucasus. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z One particularly vibrant example from the Caucasus has a pattern of stylized, almost hexagonal paisleys in an array of colors. At the Textile Museum, the divine takes many forms 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z “We remain committed to promoting a peaceful future for the South Caucasus region,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said on Wednesday. U.S. tries to stop war between Armenia, Azerbaijan in already volatile Eastern Europe 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Later, he was deployed to Mozdok in the Caucasus republic of North Ossetia, which Russia used as a base for its wars in Chechnya. ‘Give Me an Abrams!’ Ukrainian Tank Commanders Grow Impatient. 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Its author, the historian Carlo Vecce, believes that Leonardo’s mother was kidnapped and enslaved as a girl in the mountainous Caucasus area of Central Asia. Who Was Leonardo’s Mother? A Novelist Has Evidence She Was Enslaved. 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z His grandfather had acquired over thirty thousand enslaved people employed as civil servants and palace administrators; turning to the Caucasus region again, Abbas decided to also create an enslaved soldier corps like the Ottoman Janissaries. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Britain also said it would step up engagement with Moldova and countries in the South Caucasus, western Balkans and Central Asia to increase resilience to Russian interference. Factbox: Britain calls out Russia, China in updated foreign policy review 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z The remarks from Putin's top diplomat indicate the level of nervousness in Moscow over the weakening of its authority everywhere from Armenia and Azerbaijan in the South Caucasus to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan in Central Asia. Russia cautions regional allies against aligning with the United States 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Wine’s path through time began in the Caucasus and spread to Mesopotamia, and when Western civilization took root, wine went with it. Perspective | Wine vocabulary is Eurocentric. It’s time to change that. 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The fresh clash is seen as a key test of Russia's influence in the south Caucasus as it wages its own war in Ukraine. Russia expresses 'serious concern' over Karabakh after shoot-out 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z The Ottomans sued for peace in 1612, relinquishing the Caucasus to the Iranians. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z The study authors believe that the Caucasus line of grapevines gave rise to the ones selected for their winemaking potential, while the west Asian lineage was initially selected as a food source — table grapes. Wine grapes were first domesticated 11,000 years ago, gene study says 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Russia’s ministry of defense said that Ukraine had also sent two drones overnight to attack civilian infrastructure in Krasnodar and in Adygea, in the Western Caucasus, and that neither had caused harm. Russian officials accuse Ukraine of launching several attack drones over its territory. 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z President Vladimir V. Putin canceled a scheduled trip to the Caucasus region to be briefed on the incursion, the Kremlin said. Russian partisans with ties to Ukraine say they briefly took control of a village in Russia. 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Last week Putin talked to Azeri counterpart Ilham Aliyev and noted the importance of ensuring stability and security in the southern Caucasus region. Russia's Putin discusses Karabakh crisis with Armenian PM, agencies report 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, Safavid rulers were aggressive toward the Armenians, Georgians, and other Christians in the Caucasus region, whom they considered potentially rebellious. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Both events occurred around the same time, one in the Caucasus region that includes modern-day Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and one in western Asia. Wine grapes were first domesticated 11,000 years ago, gene study says 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z "The normalisation process in the southern Caucasus region is going on. We believe that our cooperation in the humanitarian field will support this process," Cavusoglu added. Turkey says earthquake diplomacy could help mend Armenia ties 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Kadyrov is a former Chechen separatist fighter who switched sides in the late 1990s, joining the pro-Russian administration in the restive Caucasus region along with his wider family. Russia can take Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa, Chechnya's Kadyrov says 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z He was the head of a de-mining unit of the 42nd Motorised Rifle Division - and was usually based in Chechnya, in Russia's North Caucasus. Russian army officer admits: 'Our troops tortured Ukrainians' 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z They enslaved men from the Caucasus and employed them as soldiers to temper the power of the Qizilbash. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Wading into a festering conflict in the volatile Caucasus region, the United States’ top diplomat on Monday demanded that Azerbaijan open a disputed corridor to Armenia before its closure results in a humanitarian disaster. Blinken demands that Azerbaijan open disputed corridor to Armenia 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z The issue is becoming a major irritant for Russia, which wants to maintain good relations with both Azerbaijan and Armenia, two small former Soviet states in the Caucasus region. Russia presses Azerbaijan to unblock road into enclave, Baku unmoved 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z A crisis in the Caucasus is testing Vladimir Putin’s ability to exert influence on Russia’s neighbors. A Better Covid Winter 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Still, with Moscow distracted, the European Union and the United States have heightened their own efforts to broker a lasting peace and to build their influence in the Caucasus. Renewed Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict Underlines Russia’s Waning Influence 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Situated in the Caucasus at the southeastern extreme of Europe, Georgia offers the quickest overland route to Turkey, which has become one of Russia’s main trade links to the West. How Western Goods Reach Russia: A Long Line of Trucks Through Georgia 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Other volunteers come from the Caucasus and Central Asia, as well as from ethnic minorities that have large populations in Russia: Chechens, Tatars and Turkic-speaking groups. Now Fighting for Ukraine: Volunteers Seeking Revenge Against Russia 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z On Dec. 30, 1922, in a meeting at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater of Communist delegates from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Caucasus region, the Soviet Union was born. 100 Years Since the Birth of the Soviet Union, in Pictures 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Long-suppressed ethnic tensions flared into strife in areas such as the southern Caucasus. Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z “Georgia does not have issue-based political parties,” said Thomas de Waal, an expert on Georgia and the Caucasus at Carnegie Europe, a think tank based in Brussels. In Georgia, a New Figure Emerges to Shake Up the Status Quo 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z “You don’t achieve that with much heavier involvement of the private sector,” said Matteo Patrone, the managing director of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Kyiv. Out of the Public Eye, a Debate Is Raging Over a Postwar Ukraine Economy 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z One of the more recently formed volunteer battalions, Turan, is composed of Turkic-speaking ethnic groups from the Caucasus, Central Asia and Russia. Now Fighting for Ukraine: Volunteers Seeking Revenge Against Russia 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Fraser also urged Deavel to contact the State Department’s desk officer for the Caucasus region, who he said would vouch that the general’s employment with Silk Way “was useful for American interests” in Azerbaijan. Fearing scandal, Air Force blocked generals’ foreign consulting deals The Russian empire ballooned in the 19th century, swallowing up the Caucasus and Central Asia on its march into the Far East. Perspective | Cracking open ‘The Nutcracker’s’ dark Russian past 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Ramzan took over following his father's assassination in 2004 to finish stamping out an Islamist insurgency and has closely tied modern Chechen culture to his personal leadership, said Caucasus researcher Cerwyn Moore. Chechens fighting for Ukraine see chance to 'free' their homeland 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z At the time, she could ride free to any part of the Soviet Union — Kaliningrad, Vladivostok, Belarus, Crimea, Sochi, the Caucasus. Ukraine’s 15,000-Mile Lifeline 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The left wing of the Democratic Party, the Progressive Caucasus, published a letter in October asking President Biden to pursue direct diplomatic talks with Russia over the war, despite Russian escalations over the fall. In Wake of U.S. Election, Ukrainian Lawmakers Will Reach Out to Washington 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z In the 1880s a wagon train of Dutch-German Mennonites, burning with millenarian fever, set out to meet Jesus on far side of the Caucasus. Review: A "mixed" memoirist's Silk Road travelogue becomes a road map to sanctuary 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z "You see what's happening? It's an effort by Russia to destabilise. It wants to create disorder in the Caucasus to destabilise all of us." France accuses Russia of stoking Armenia, Azerbaijan conflict 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z For now, he said, many in the Caucasus region subscribe to the official position, broadcast widely on state media, that Russia is a bulwark against Western aggression. Chechens fighting for Ukraine see chance to 'free' their homeland 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of Chechnya, a Russian region in the North Caucasus, said he was now “100% happy” with the course of the Kremlin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine. Kremlin war hawks demand more devastating strikes on Ukraine 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechnya region in the North Caucasus, said he is now “100 percent satisfied” with Moscow’s war strategy. Russia strikes Kyiv and cities across Ukraine after Crimea Bridge attack 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Before President Vladimir V. Putin invaded Ukraine in February, Russia played an outsize role in the affairs of Central Asia and also the volatile Caucasus region, in what had passed for a far-flung Pax Russica. A Distracted Russia Is Losing Its Grip on Its Old Soviet Sphere 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z The two former Soviet republics in the South Caucasus have long disputed the landlocked region known as the Nagorno-Karabakh. Explainer: Fears over festering Armenia-Azerbaijan territorial dispute 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z "We want to achieve freedom and independence for our peoples," he added, referring to Chechens and other ethnic minorities in the Caucasus region. Chechens fighting for Ukraine see chance to 'free' their homeland 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Some were to Ossetians, an ethnic group in the Caucasus, who helped navigate police stops. Panic, Bribes, Ditched Cars and a Dash on Foot: Portraits of Flight From Russia 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z In the republic of Dagestan in the Northern Caucasus, the indiscriminate mobilization has sparked riots and clashes with police. Putin’s war comes home to Russia 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z "You don't have to die in Ukraine. Your sons don't have to die in Ukraine," Zelenskiy said, standing next to a monument in Kyiv to an imam from the Caucasus. Zelenskiy urges minorities in Russia to resist Kremlin mobilisation 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z At the Verkhny Lars border crossing, which straddles a narrow road through a spectacular Caucasus mountain pass, local authorities said that 3,500 cars were waiting to cross into Georgia. Desperation on Russia's borders as draft-eligible men flee 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Putin’s mobilization has disproportionately targeted far-flung regions of Russia and those with large populations of minority groups, including in Siberia and the predominantly Muslim provinces of the North Caucasus. Russia’s draft is targeting Crimean Tatars and other marginalized groups, according to activists. 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Only three are in Central Asia and the Caucasus Region, where scientists believe many contemporary apple varieties originated. How About Them Apples? Research Orchards Chart a Fruit’s Future. 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Outrage also spilled into the streets of another North Caucasus region, Kabardino-Balkaria. Putin’s call-up fuels Russian anger, instability, violence 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Over the weekend, people in Russia's Dagestan republic in the North Caucasus clashed with police over the mobilisation drive. Ukraine war: Russia admits mobilisation errors, amid growing public opposition 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Public anger has appeared to be particularly strong in poor ethnic minority regions like Dagestan, a Muslim-majority region located on the shores of the Caspian Sea in the mountainous north Caucasus. Police clash with people opposed to mobilisation in Russia's Dagestan 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z But Moscow may also find its double role in the South Caucasus harder to maintain if the situation grows more dangerous. Understanding the Fight Between Armenia and Azerbaijan 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Interviews with people in three regions in Russia’s predominantly Muslim Caucasus Mountains suggested widespread fear of mobilization. Putin’s Draft Draws Resistance in Russia’s Far-Flung Regions 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Reports of large numbers of men receiving draft notices arrived from across the country, but regions in Siberia and in the largely Muslim Caucasus Mountains appeared to be among the hardest hit. Ukraine War Comes Home to Russians as Putin Imposes Draft 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z So extra troops were drafted in, especially from poor regions of Siberia and the Caucasus, including experienced Chechen fighters. Putin warning: What does Russian military call-up mean for Ukraine? 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z The deadly clashes have raised the prospect of Russia’s losing influence after Moscow moved some of its troops from the south Caucasus to Ukraine. Erdogan says Russia should return all captured Ukrainian territory. 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z More broadly, Washington has long sought influence in the South Caucasus and other states in the former Soviet empire. Understanding the Fight Between Armenia and Azerbaijan 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Rooslan Totrov, a journalist from the Caucasus region of North Ossetia who is now based in Dubai, said that the draft had become a “reality check” for people who supported the war from afar. Putin’s Draft Draws Resistance in Russia’s Far-Flung Regions 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z On social media, activists in regions like Kabardino-Balkaria in the Caucasus and Yakutia in northeastern Siberia kept a running tally of the summonses that had arrived in various villages. Ukraine War Comes Home to Russians as Putin Imposes Draft 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z In Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, the delegation on Sunday met with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, whom Pelosi described as “a valued partner in advancing security, prosperity and democracy in the Caucasus region.” Pelosi, in Armenia, condemns Azerbaijan’s ‘illegal’ attacks as cease-fire holds 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z “The situation remains fragile,” Olesya Vartanyan, a senior analyst on the South Caucasus with the International Crisis Group, said on Saturday. Nancy Pelosi Visits Armenia Amid Conflict With Azerbaijan 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z The plot of “Host and Guest” is simple: A Christian hunter named Zviadauri is lost in the Caucasus Mountains when he crosses paths with Joqola, a Muslim member of a warring clan. As yet another war wages, Synetic Theater remounts a cautionary tale 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Both Baku and Armenia blame each other for the latest flare-up in hostilities between the two South Caucasus countries. Armenia's PM: 105 soldiers killed in clashes with Azerbaijan 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Fighting erupted Tuesday between Armenia and Azerbaijan, the latest flare-up in their decades-long armed standoff over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus. Clashes Erupt Between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Raising Fears of Another War 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The Southern Caucasus region has long been a source of diplomatic sensitivities for the United States. Pelosi, in Armenia, condemns Azerbaijan’s ‘illegal’ attacks as cease-fire holds 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Russia’s preoccupation with the war and its perceived weakness have helped destabilize the situation in the Caucasus, Thomas de Waal, a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, said recently in an article in Foreign Affairs. Armenia and Azerbaijan Clash Raises Fears of Broader Conflict 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Since coming to power in 1999, Islamist militants in Chechnya and the wider North Caucasus region are among the toughest armed foes Putin has faced. What are Vladimir Putin's options after Russian military setback in Ukraine? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Armenia and Russia are military allies through their membership of the CSTO, but Moscow also strives to maintain friendly relations with non-member Azerbaijan, and acts as a power broker in the South Caucasus region. Moscow-led security group to discuss deadly Armenia, Azerbaijan clashes 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The escalation between the two former Soviet states in the South Caucasus has heightened fears that Russia could find itself entangled in a second war in addition to its invasion of Ukraine. Clashes Erupt in Nagorno-Karabakh, Raising Fears of Another War 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region of the South Caucasus, is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, but the local ethnic Armenian residents reject Baku's sovereignty over the region. Russia tells Armenia and Azerbaijan: cease hostilities 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The outbreak of clashes in the Caucasus is an added test for Russia, Mr. de Waal said in an interview Tuesday. Armenia and Azerbaijan Clash Raises Fears of Broader Conflict 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Tensions flared overnight in the latest escalation of decades-old hostilities between the two countries in the south Caucasus over control of the disputed region. Azerbaijan and Armenia ceasefire fails within minutes - media 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union's last leader may have given millions of people their freedom - but in his time in charge he still sent in troops to quell protests in the Baltic republics, Kazakhstan and the Caucasus. Gorbachev: Little love for late Soviet leader in Russia's old empire 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Long-suppressed ethnic tensions flared, sparking wars and unrest in trouble spots such as the southern Caucasus region. Gorbachev, who redirected course of 20th century, dies at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Instituting political reform, from the Caucasus to the Baltics, proved daunting. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The energy crisis precipitated by the war in Ukraine raises the stakes of a new war in the Caucasus enormously. Armenia and Azerbaijan Clash Raises Fears of Broader Conflict 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Another genetic contribution came from the east about 6500 years ago, as hunter-gatherers from the Caucasus entered the region. ‘Phenomenal’ ancient DNA data set provides clues to origin of farming and early languages 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z There was bloodshed in the Caucasus as well. Gorbachev: Little love for late Soviet leader in Russia's old empire 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z But admirers of the drone's capabilities are not confined to eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 drone: Why African states are buying them 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z In Azerbaijan, Turkey supported a military assault to drive ethnic Armenian forces out of much of the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh enclave in the south Caucasus - a region which Russia considers part of its sphere of influence. Putin and Erdogan contacts underline complex Russia-Turkey ties 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Clashes in the Caucasus, a tempestuous but often ignored region, pose challenges for both Moscow and the West, analysts warn. Armenia and Azerbaijan Clash Raises Fears of Broader Conflict 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z “The people of the Southern Arc are mostly coming from Levantine, Anatolian, and Caucasus components,” Lazaridis says. ‘Phenomenal’ ancient DNA data set provides clues to origin of farming and early languages 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Armenian statements on the two meetings were similar: they discussed bilateral relations and also questions of international and regional security, including in the South Caucasus, the Armenian government said. Russian spy chief meets Armenian PM days after CIA chief Burns did 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z But often the forces on the other side of the front line are also from Chechnya, the small Muslim-majority republic under Russian rule in the Caucasus Mountains. Within the war between Russia and Ukraine, a war between Chechens 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The high death toll among soldiers from poorer republics populated by ethnic minorities, like Dagestan in the Caucasus and Buryatia in southern Siberia, indicate that they fill the front ranks in disproportionate numbers. Desperate for Recruits, Russia Launches a ‘Stealth Mobilization’ 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z In the years following World War II, Turkey found itself in a unique geopolitical position, at the crossroads of numerous civilizations, many of them at odds: Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the Caucasus. So, why is Turkey in NATO, anyway? A look at the country's complex history with the alliance 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z “That Caucasus component is a unifying type of ancestry we find in all places where ancient Indo-European languages are spoken,” says Lazaridis, who is first author on all three papers. ‘Phenomenal’ ancient DNA data set provides clues to origin of farming and early languages 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Normally a major grain and trade hub, the port connects landlocked central and southeastern European countries like Serbia, Hungary, Slovakia, Moldavia and Austria with central and East Asia and the Caucasus region. As Russia Chokes Ukraine’s Grain Exports, Romania Tries to Fill In 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Iranian foreign ministry said on Monday that Lavrov's visit was aimed at "expanding cooperation with the Eurasian region and the Caucasus". Russia's Lavrov in Iran to discuss nuclear deal, cooperation 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Chernyshov explained that some of the killers appeared to have been ordinary young soldiers and others appeared to have been special forces from the Caucasus region, which lies between the Black and Caspian seas.. Kyiv Diary: European leaders bear witness to war’s horror 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z “For instance, people in different regions have different tastes. People like spice in the Caucasus Mountains and Siberia, but in central Russia, they don’t, so we shouldn’t be offering them the same things.” De-arched former Moscow McDonald’s reopens without Big Macs 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z The early people of the Caucasus would have been familiar with farming, he says, but the deepest layers of Indo-European have just one word for grain and no words for legumes or the plow. ‘Phenomenal’ ancient DNA data set provides clues to origin of farming and early languages 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z She quickly realized they were Chechen fighters from Russia’s North Caucasus region, part of a force that gained a reputation for particularly harsh cruelty toward civilians who remained in the Ukrainian port city. She was raped in Ukraine. How many others have stories like hers? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z "The Crimean Tatars... suffered more under Russian occupation, and so they feel closer to us," says Muaz, an ethnic Kabardian from Russia's North Caucasus who joined the battalion a year ago. Ukraine’s Muslim Crimea battalion yearns for lost homeland 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Armenia is Russia's strategic ally in the South Caucasus region and hosts a Russian military base as well as being part of the Russian-led security alliance CSTO. Ukraine war: Russian anti-war protesters flee to Armenia hoping for safety 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The reddish tint of his beard, his hazel eyes and pale skin gave him the air of someone from the Black Sea or the Caucasus. Returning to Istanbul, a Place of Competing Identities 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The team agrees more evidence of “Proto-Indo-Anatolians” is needed, but says the Caucasus is a promising place to look. ‘Phenomenal’ ancient DNA data set provides clues to origin of farming and early languages 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z At a time when the world is focused on the intense combat in Ukraine, diplomatic issues in the Caucasus may seem like a sideshow. Opinion | An unlikely peace process takes shape in Armenia. Could it help Ukraine? 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The landlocked South Caucasus country has seen a string of protests in recent weeks as pressure mounts on the embattled prime minister, with at least 92 protesters detained last Thursday. Armenian police detain 61 at opposition protests - reports 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z It’s saperavi, native to Georgia in the Caucasus Mountains, where archaeologists have unearthed evidence of winemaking dating back 8,000 years. One of the world’s oldest wine grapes is poised to take off in America 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The Russian army also deals with simmering tensions between ethnic Russians and other ethnic groups, particularly from the Caucasus, who form gangs that prey on fellow service members. Opinion | Trump is wrong about war. Russia’s failure in Ukraine shows why. 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z The team suggests they and the Yamnaya instead share common ancestors in a hunter-gatherer population in the highlands east of Anatolia, including the Caucasus Mountains. ‘Phenomenal’ ancient DNA data set provides clues to origin of farming and early languages 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z “We realized we need to go fast while we still can, and took the first flight to North Caucasus to cross to Georgia,” Takk said. Fleeing Putin's Russia: Exiles search for new identity, but find new problems 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Ukraine is very different from Chechnya, which was a small territory of just one million people in the North Caucasus. A Brutal Russian Playbook Reapplied in Ukraine 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z It said he had served in Syria, the North Caucasus and Abkhazia. Russia's military hit by high-ranking losses in Ukraine 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Lucy, a 29-year-old designer from the North Caucasus region, said she has cut back on using Instagram because of angry comments against Russians. Some Russians are breaking through Putin’s digital iron curtain — leading to fights with friends and family 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z The guards at checkpoint No. 15 spoke Russian in the rough accent of the Caucasus. We witnessed Mariupol’s agony and fled a Russian hit list 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z My mom and a sister were born in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, in the Caucasus by the Caspian Sea. I wish the 58% of Russians supporting Putin could have met my Russian-born mom 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Scores have left home either opposing the war or avoiding new restrictions in Russia, arriving mostly in Middle Eastern and Caucasus countries. Wary of Western sanctions, Turkey's banks resist Russian customers -sources 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z “It was easier with the Chechens,” the non-Slavic people of the Caucasus whom Russia has been fighting since Catherine the Great. Analysis ❘ Putin’s war on Ukraine is about ethnicity and empire 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, trips to the southern Caucasus region, Central Asia and the Middle East are on. Changed Itineraries, Higher Fares: How the War in Ukraine Is Affecting Travel 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z It did profile one soldier who was killed, but he was conveniently from Dagestan, one of the Muslim Republics in the Caucasus, not from the Russian heartland. Two days of Russian news coverage: an alternate reality of war 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The most recent projects approved including a youth program in the North Caucasus in 2013 and a cultural heritage program dating back to 2010, the bank's website showed. World Bank halts all programs in Russia, Belarus 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z These three nations lie in the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian seas. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And since 2020, the Russian military has expanded its footprint in the Caucasus region. Ukraine Invasion Increases Friction Between Erdogan and Putin 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z In one of his most-cited poems, “The Caucasus,” written in 1845, he ridicules Russian expansionism and mourns the immense loss of life it had already wrought. Perspective | To understand the Ukraine-Russia conflict, look to colonialism 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Putin is referring to a series of bitter internal wars fought in Russia’s North Caucasus region, particularly in Chechnya. Putin’s Case for War, Annotated 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Gavin Wilde, a former director for Russia, Baltic and Caucasus affairs on the National Security Council who served in the Trump administration, called the British targets “low-hanging fruit.” European leaders respond to Putin with sanctions. Can they change his mind? 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The Caucasus are the mountains between the Black and Caspian seas. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Another reason “Dune” feels gritty and real is that it’s heavily researched: Frank Herbert did deep dives into desert ecology, the oil economy of the modern Middle East and the tribal conflicts of the Caucasus. How these filmmakers looked to Frank Herbert's spirit to keep 'Dune' human 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z The FBI’s nearest outpost is on the opposite side of the Lesser Caucasus Mountains in Tbilisi, Georgia. Hunt for third fugitive in COVID relief scam follows warnings she would flee 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z What victims, what losses we had to sustain and what trials we had to go through at that time before we broke the back of international terrorism in the Caucasus! Putin’s Case for War, Annotated 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z And the two countries are also on opposing sides in two Middle Eastern wars, in Syria and Libya, and in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the South Caucasus region. Turkey, a Sometimes Wavering NATO Ally, Backs Ukraine 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Many Russians feel a connection with Ukraine that they do not feel with other former Soviet republics in the Baltics, Caucasus and Central Asia. Explainer: Why is Russia's Putin drawing "red lines" over Ukraine? 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z “NATO’s influence under any pretext in the Caucasus and Central Asia is a threat to the mutual interests of independent countries,” Mr. Raisi said, according to the Iranian government’s account of the meeting. Russia and Iran Put on a Show of Unity — Against the U.S. 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z More than 200 trees arrived at the park in total, dug out of the soil in the impoverished villages and thick forests of Georgia, a small nation in the Caucasus. A Love of Trees or a Display of Power? The Odd Park of an Oligarch. 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z The Caucasus Mountains are high and terrible, and they are full of caves for gnomic tribes and nomads to hide in. The mountain villages of Northern Azerbaijan, on the cusp of change 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Both countries hope that the talks will bolster peace efforts for the Caucasus region and lead to the reopening of their border to encourage trade and boost economic ties. Turkish, Armenian envoys meet in bid to end chilly relations 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Struggling with a stagnant economy and tattered alliances, Russia is also dealing with volatile situations on at least four borders — with Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and the Southern Caucasus. Putin’s next move on Ukraine is a mystery — just the way he likes it 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z He didn’t single Russia out by name but called for “acceptable and lasting solutions” for Ukraine and the southern Caucasus inspired by “reciprocal trust and readiness to engage in calm discussion.” Pope on COVID vaccines says health care a ‘moral obligation’ 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Two years earlier, an uprising in the Caucasus country of Georgia had ousted its Soviet-holdover president. Putin dreams of a Russian ‘sphere of influence.’ Kazakhstan’s protesters are the latest to push back. 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z The move is seen as part of an effort to end tensions in the Caucasus region. Turkish, Armenian envoys to meet in Moscow on Jan 14 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z The Centre operates a network of offices across the predominantly Muslim North Caucasus region, where it has documented rights abuses in places such as Chechnya and provided legal and practical help to victims. U.S, EU condemn decision to shut Russian human rights group Memorial 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Heroin is trafficked to the Middle East and even Europe by land from Iran and Afghanistan through well-worn land routes in the Balkans, Southern Caucasus mountains or Saudi Arabia, according to last year’s U.N. US Navy seizes $4 million worth of heroin in Arabian Sea 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Four months later, Russia routed Georgia in a five-day war that erupted when the South Caucasus nation used force to try to reclaim control over the Moscow-backed separatist province of South Ossetia. EXPLAINER: Moscow’s rocky relationship with NATO alliance 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Cavusolgu did not provide further details on the steps to normalize ties but told parliament that Turkey and Azerbaijan were now engaged in “intense diplomatic” efforts to bring peace and prosperity to the Caucasus region. Turkey, Armenia to appoint envoys in bid to normalize ties 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Russia’s ex-Soviet neighbor has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the Caucasus region. Armenia will allow employers to fire unvaccinated workers 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z "Added to that are the recent border crisis involving thousands of migrants in Belarus, as well as Russia's backing of separatists in the Caucasus and elsewhere," he said. How a Russian invasion of Ukraine could spill over into Europe 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Authorities in the South Caucasus country transferred the 53-year-old Saakashvili to a prison hospital in the capital Tbilisi on Monday, just over five weeks after he declared a hunger strike in jail. Georgian prison hospital treating ex-president 'violates human rights', public ombudsman says 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Pavlov fled to the South Caucasus country of Georgia last month, saying it was impossible to work in Russia because of the restrictions imposed as part of a criminal investigation against him. Rights lawyer who fled Russia says he is wanted by authorities 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z “The Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian seas are the fruit’s center of origin,” says Postman. Quince evokes mystery and magic as heat turns the fruit from woody to luscious 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Its 2017 reporting on the torture and killings of gay men in the Caucasus republic of Chechnya prompted a global wave of outrage. How the Nobel Peace Prize Laid Bare the Schism in Russia’s Opposition 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The 80-year old Soviet chess icon, a hero in her native South Caucasus Republic of Georgia, was described in the show's last episode as a female champion who had "never faced men". Soviet chess legend sues Netflix for 'sexist' line in Queen's Gambit show 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Pavlov, who said he had been barred him from using the internet and communicating with clients and colleagues in Russia, said he was now based in Georgia in the South Caucasus. Top human rights lawyer leaves Russia, citing criminal case against him 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Mr Kluge said countries in the Balkans, the Caucasus and the Central Asian republics had seen a particularly steep rise in cases, resulting in an increased burden on hospitals and deaths. Covid surge 'deeply worrying' in Europe as vaccinations dip - WHO 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z In the Caucasus, the wearing down of permafrost has made mountain slopes less stable. Here’s How Climate Change Will Stress Your Homeland 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Police forces across Russia's North Caucasus were involved in the anti-corruption operation. Gold toilet found in Russian police bribery probe 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z The Open Caucasus Media group published a photo of a man it said was a local TV journalist being pulled away from the scene in a headlock by an Orthodox priest. Protests erupt in Georgia after beaten journalist dies 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z The Open Caucasus Media group published a photo of a man it said was a local TV journalist being pulled away from the demonstration in a headlock by an Orthodox priest. Journalists attacked, hurt in Georgia at anti-LGBT protest 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z The hostilities caused international concern because the wider South Caucasus region is a corridor for pipelines carrying natural oil and gas to world markets. Armenia's acting PM keeps power despite Karabakh defeat 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Whoever forms a majority in the south Caucasus country’s parliament gets to elect the prime minister, who is nominated by the president. Armenia votes in neck-and-neck parliamentary election 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z Consider starting off from Tbilisi, a gateway to hiking Caucasus trails. Hitting international trails: Explore the world’s most epic hiking destinations | Provided by Qatar Airways 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in the Caucasus mountains flared up again last September for six weeks. Azerbaijan captures six Armenian troops on border 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z That’s about a fifth of the total birds illegally killed every year along the Mediterranean coast, Northern Europe and the Caucasus, according to BirdLife International. On the Menu at a Lunch in Italy: Protected Songbirds 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z “Moscow is well positioned to increase its role in the Caucasus, intervene in Belarus if it deems necessary, and continue destabilization efforts against Ukraine.” China maneuvering to expand global influence, undercut U.S., intelligence report finds 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Since the collapse of communism in 1991, Russian troops have intervened in several conflicts in ex-Soviet republics, notably in Chechnya and other parts of the Caucasus. Quick guide to Russia-Ukraine military tensions 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Kashk, in varying preparations and names, is also used in several neighboring countries and regions, such as Afghanistan, the Caucasus, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey and Palestine. How to make your own kashk, a creamy, tangy staple of Iranian cuisine 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z The political crisis is being watched closely, particularly in Russia and Turkey, which compete for influence in the South Caucasus region. Armenian PM slams ‘coup attempt’ as political tensions rise 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z One of Mr. Navalny’s early slogans was: “Stop feeding the Caucasus!” A Life in Opposition: Navalny’s Path From Gadfly to Heroic Symbol 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z South Caucasus neighbors Armenia and Azerbaijan were in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, an autonomous region of the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan. ‘I don’t even know if my home still exists.’ 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Their latest temporary home is this remote outpost near the Caucasus Mountains, where hostilities toward Jehovah’s Witnesses — a minority in a predominantly Orthodox Christian country — seem especially pronounced. Review: 'Beginning,' Georgia's Oscar entry, is a beautifully bleak portrait of faith in crisis 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z The 82-year-old was a quiet, well-liked man, locals told an Armenian lawyer who documented Asryan's death after videos surfaced depicting atrocities in the conflict over this disputed region in the Caucasus. Videos from Nagorno-Karabakh conflict prompt accusations of war crimes 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Cultural sites may be at risk in the Caucasus. Armenian monuments are at risk in Azerbaijan. L.A. artists make their own to keep memory alive 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z They questioned his participation in Russian nationalist movements a decade ago and condemned his past racist statements about people from Russia’s predominantly Muslim Caucasus region. A Life in Opposition: Navalny’s Path From Gadfly to Heroic Symbol 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z She has lined up trips to Nepal, Oman and the Caucasus region and plans to be snorkeling in Indonesia’s Raja Ampat region come next December. For some Americans, the coronavirus vaccine can’t come soon enough. Others are taking a wait-and-see approach. 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The attack took place in the southern Russian region of Karachay-Cherkessia in the North Caucasus, the source was quoted as saying. Two hurt in suspected bomb attack in Russia's North Caucasus - Ifax 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Russia is keen to show it remains powerful in the Caucasus region but experts say the war revealed the limitations of its reach in its former empire. Russia bans Azerbaijani tomatoes over 'pesticide concerns' 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Situated in the Lesser Caucasus mountain range, the region has been ruled over the centuries by Persians and Russians, followed in the 20th century by the old Soviet Union. Armenian monuments are at risk in Azerbaijan. L.A. artists make their own to keep memory alive 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Moscow is hailing the deal as proof that Russia remains an influential force in the South Caucasus. Russian influence under threat in its own back yard 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z For Russia, long a provocateur in the broader Caucasus region, the peacemaker role is a switch — a new test and opportunity for a country struggling to maintain its influence in the former Soviet lands. In Nagorno-Karabakh Peace Deal, Putin Applied a Deft New Touch 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Fighting over the breakaway south Caucasus territory ended this month with Hadrut under Azeri control. 'We expected to go back in days': Karabakh truce means exile for some, homecoming for others 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z “If you look at Central Asia, if you look at the Caucasus, if you look at Belarus, there’s just not a lot of American presence,” he continued. In Nagorno-Karabakh peace deal, Russia’s Putin claims a strategic win. But risks are attached. 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Regardless, analysts caution against viewing the Caucasus conflict as another proxy war between Russia and Turkey and stress that decades-old tensions between the two belligerents were the main accelerant. Drones, use of AI offer taste of 21st century conflict in Armenia-Azerbaijan clash 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z For Turkey, the war in Karabakh was a showcase for Ankara's growing role in the strategically important South Caucasus. Viewpoint: Russia and Turkey - unlikely victors of Karabakh conflict 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z “This brings Baku what it long failed to attain through negotiation,” Zaur Shiriyev, the South Caucasus analyst for the International Crisis Group, said in a phone interview from the Azerbaijani capital. In Bitter Nagorno-Karabakh War, a Reordering of Regional Powers 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z But the agreement Monday suggested a more permanent, sweeping redrawing of the security map of the southern Caucasus, a volatile region wedged between Turkey, Russia and Iran. Facing Military Debacle, Armenia Accepts a Deal in Nagorno-Karabakh War 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Now, that house, too, lies destroyed in the fresh hostilities that broke out in late September — the deadliest in a quarter pf a century in this corner of the South Caucasus. War uprooted them. Now it gives these Azerbaijanis hope 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z A little war in the Caucasus has opened a big window into the future of conflict. Drones, use of AI offer taste of 21st century conflict in Armenia-Azerbaijan clash 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z A great power that was once the unchallenged regional hegemon appeared unable to save Armenia, its only treaty ally in the South Caucasus. Viewpoint: Russia and Turkey - unlikely victors of Karabakh conflict 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The end of the war suggests a sweeping redrawing of the security map of the southern Caucasus, a volatile region wedged between Turkey, Russia and Iran. In Bitter Nagorno-Karabakh War, a Reordering of Regional Powers 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Three ceasefires have failed to halt the bloodiest fighting in the South Caucasus for more than 25 years. Nagorno-Karabakh says its two largest cities under fierce attack 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z But then there is a sliver, from the Caucasus foothills to Crimea, where the softly undulating, deep-green land, glowing beneath the warm autumn sun, is reminiscent of a Tuscan afternoon. In Russia’s Idyllic Wine Country, Dark Tales of Dreams Dashed 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Emboldened by Turkish support, Azerbaijan has the upper hand in the bloodiest fighting in more than 25 years in the South Caucasus. Analysis: Stick or twist? Azerbaijan looks to drive home Nagorno-Karabakh gains 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Azerbaijan and Armenia are locked in the South Caucasus region’s bloodiest fighting in decades. Homesick and bellicose, Karabakh's exiled Azeris yearn for return 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Russia’s leading role in stopping the fighting also shows that Moscow continues to be the most influential player in the southern Caucasus. In Bitter Nagorno-Karabakh War, a Reordering of Regional Powers 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Some connected the Russian airstrikes to Turkey’s support for Azerbaijan against Armenia, a Russian ally, in recent fighting in the southern Caucasus. Russian Airstrikes Kill Dozens of Turkish-Backed Rebels in Syria 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The latest fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous part of Azerbaijan populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians, erupted on Sept. 27 and is the worst in the South Caucasus since the 1990s. Renewed fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh threatens U.S.-backed truce 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Fighting erupted on 27 September around the Caucasus enclave, which is recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan but under Armenian control. Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: 'Execution' video prompts war crime probe 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z His family is from Russia's Muslim-majority Chechnya region in the North Caucasus. France teacher attack: Macron urges Russia to boost anti-terror fight 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z The ceasefire was agreed on Saturday after a deal brokered by Russia a week earlier failed to halt the worst fighting in the South Caucasus since the 1990s. New Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire jeopardised by shelling reports 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z The three-week-old conflict over the disputed Caucasus territory hints of a long and punishing fight. At Front Lines of a Brutal War: Death and Despair in Nagorno-Karabakh 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z Any halt in the conflict would be welcome for people in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, in the volatile southern Caucasus region between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. Armenia, Azerbaijan Reach New Cease-Fire for Nagorno-Karabakh 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z It also revealed the limits of Russia’s ability to shape events in what the Kremlin considers its backyard: the former Soviet republics and regions from Central Asia, through the Caucasus and into Eastern Europe. With unrest on all sides, Russia’s regional muscle is being tested 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z To the casual observer, the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, a small plot of earth in the Caucasus, may seem a squabble between neighbors. Op-Ed: Why Armenians everywhere stand with those in Nagorno-Karabakh 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z He likened Turkey’s bid for influence in the southern Caucasus, Russia’s backyard, to Moscow’s entanglements in Syria and Libya, which are more in Turkey’s immediate sphere. Ally backs Azerbaijan with aim to 'Make Turkey Great Again' 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z The three-week-old conflict over the disputed Caucasus territory hints of a long and punishing fight. At Front Lines of a Brutal War: Death and Despair in Nagorno-Karabakh 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z In an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan accused Turkey of muscling its way into the South Caucasus region to further what he called its expansionist ambitions. Russia appeals to Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z The ethnic geography of the southern Caucasus is so complicated that part of Azerbaijan, the region called Nakhchivan, is cut off from the rest of the country by a slice of Armenia. For Nagorno-Karabakh’s Dueling Sides, Living Together Is ‘Impossible’ 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z “And the problem is that Armenians in the South Caucasus are the last remaining obstacle on its path to implement that expansionist policy.” Only a change in Turkey's stance can unlock Nagorno-Karabakh settlement - Armenian PM 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Mini Kabob is one of the many Armenian-owned food businesses in Los Angeles using its platform to raise funds for and awareness of the deadly conflict in the South Caucasus. How L.A.’s Armenian food community has banded together to support their homeland 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z The three-week-old conflict over the disputed Caucasus territory hints of a long and punishing fight. At Front Lines of a Brutal War: Death and Despair in Nagorno-Karabakh 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z Nagorno-Karabakh, with a population of about 150,000, is a landlocked territory in the Caucasus, the mountain range where Europe meets Asia, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Fighting Eases, Briefly, After Cease-Fire Between Armenia and Azerbaijan 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z A tragedy is unfolding on the edge of Europe in and around the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus. War has broken out on the edge of Europe. What's behind it? | Thomas de Waal 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z “The whole of the South Caucasus will become Syria and that fire would spread to the north and to the south rapidly,” he said. Only a change in Turkey's stance can unlock Nagorno-Karabakh settlement - Armenian PM 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The tiny mountainous South Caucasus enclave Nagorno-Karabakh, referred to by Armenians by its historical name, Artsakh, is recognized internationally as part of Azerbaijan, but its population of 150,000 is mostly ethnic Armenian. Here's why Armenian Americans in Southern California are protesting 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The three-week-old conflict over the disputed Caucasus territory hints of a long and punishing fight. At Front Lines of a Brutal War: Death and Despair in Nagorno-Karabakh 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z The new eruption of violence in the Caucasus region strikes close to home for Lebanon’s Armenians. Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict draws in fighters from Mideast 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Lenin and Ataturk did this in the Caucasus exactly a century ago in 1920-1. War has broken out on the edge of Europe. What's behind it? | Thomas de Waal 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Armenia and its neighbor, Azerbaijan, are former Soviet republics in the southern Caucasus region, straddling Asia and Europe. Why these Armenian American celebs are speaking out about a chronic conflict 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z He is also the co-founder of the Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation and the managing editor of the Caucasus Edition: Journal of Conflict Transformation. Here's why Armenian Americans in Southern California are protesting 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The three-week-old conflict over the disputed Caucasus territory hints of a long and punishing fight. At Front Lines of a Brutal War: Death and Despair in Nagorno-Karabakh 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z In an interview published on Tuesday that is likely to exacerbate international frictions over the clashes in the South Caucasus region, Assad also said militants from Syria were being deployed to the conflict area. Syria's Assad blames Turkey for fighting between Azeris and Armenians 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other on Monday of attacking civilian areas and said the death toll was rising from the deadliest fighting in the South Caucasus for more than 25 years. Deputy U.S. Secretary of State urges immediate Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said that “a cease-fire can be established only if Turkey is removed from the South Caucasus.” Armenia, Azerbaijan clashes resume over separatist region 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z “Armenians in the south Caucasus are the last remaining obstacle in the way of Turkish expansion toward the north, the south and the east,” he said. Armenia’s Leader Makes Plea to U.S. as Conflict Rages With Azerbaijan 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z The three-week-old conflict over the disputed Caucasus territory hints of a long and punishing fight. At Front Lines of a Brutal War: Death and Despair in Nagorno-Karabakh 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z They have raised international concern about stability in the South Caucasus, where pipelines carry Azeri oil and gas to world markets. Azerbaijan's leader says no end to fighting until Armenia sets pullout timetable 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said earlier this week that “a cease-fire can be established only if Turkey is removed from the South Caucasus.” Azerbaijan’s No. 2 city targeted in fighting with Armenia 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z “The Americans have withdrawn from this issue,” said Thomas de Waal, a senior fellow specialising in the Caucasus with Carnegie Europe. US silence on Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict reflects international disengagement 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Although Russia and Armenia do not share a border, Armenia is a close Russian ally of Russia in the Caucasus region between the Black and Caspian seas, including hosting a large Russian military base. AP Explains: What lies behind Turkish support for Azerbaijan 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z The three-week-old conflict over the disputed Caucasus territory hints of a long and punishing fight. At Front Lines of a Brutal War: Death and Despair in Nagorno-Karabakh 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z And as in Syria and Libya, Mr. Erdogan finds himself on the opposite side of the Caucasus conflict from Russia in an increasingly complicated geopolitical rivalry. Turkey Jumps Into Another Foreign Conflict, This Time in the Caucasus 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The struggle over Nagorno-Karabakh is seen as a potentially destabilizing element in the strategic South Caucasus region, long a fault line between empires. Tiny ethnic Armenian enclave may spark a wider conflict 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Distracted by other issues like the pandemic, however — and a popular uprising in Belarus, another former Soviet state — international mediators missed warning signs in the Caucasus conflict, analysts say. Fighting Between Armenia and Azerbaijan Risks Drawing in Bigger Powers 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z “We are on the brink of a full-scale war in the South Caucasus,” Pashinyan said. Dozens dead as Armenia-Azerbaijan clashes continue 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z The three-week-old conflict over the disputed Caucasus territory hints of a long and punishing fight. At Front Lines of a Brutal War: Death and Despair in Nagorno-Karabakh 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z Analysts see both the conflicts in Libya and the Caucasus as extensions of the struggle between Turkey and Russia in Syria. Turkey Jumps Into Another Foreign Conflict, This Time in the Caucasus 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z “Horrible news” from the Caucasus, Thomas de Waal, a senior fellow with Carnegie Europe, wrote on Twitter. Fighting Flares Between Azerbaijan and Armenia 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Clashes erupted between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Sunday over the volatile Nagorno-Karabakh region, reigniting concern about instability in the South Caucasus, a corridor for pipelines transporting oil and gas to world markets. Azerbaijan says shelling from Armenia kills five people from one family 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The long-running dispute in the south Caucasus attracts regional and western concern because the area is a corridor for pipelines carrying oil and gas from the Caspian Sea to global markets. Armenia imposes martial law after clashes with Azerbaijan 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The three-week-old conflict over the disputed Caucasus territory hints of a long and punishing fight. At Front Lines of a Brutal War: Death and Despair in Nagorno-Karabakh 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z “Turkey’s approach to the Caucasus is deceptively simple, and in line with its logic in other theaters of conflict/dispute,” tweeted Selim Koru, an analyst at TEPAV, a nonprofit think tank in Ankara. Turkey Jumps Into Another Foreign Conflict, This Time in the Caucasus 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Other leaders lamented growth of international cyber attacks, disinformation and used the U.N. virtual floor to call attention to conflicts from Kashmir to the Mideast to Georgia in the Caucasus. Under virus strain, Europe’s leaders plea at UN for unity 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Kaspi outlined growth plans on Friday including expansion into new businesses such as online travel and geographies such as nearby Central Asian countries and the Caucasus region. Kazakhstan's Kaspi revives London float plan 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z “Instead, I served in the Caucasus, Germany, and the Balkans.” Former Green Beret charged with spying for Russia 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The three-week-old conflict over the disputed Caucasus territory hints of a long and punishing fight. At Front Lines of a Brutal War: Death and Despair in Nagorno-Karabakh 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z Despite Turkey’s refusal to confirm the use of Turkish armed drones in the Caucasus, Mr. Bayraktar posted Azerbaijan’s defense ministry footage of drone strikes on Twitter on the first day of the conflict. Turkey Jumps Into Another Foreign Conflict, This Time in the Caucasus 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Moscow credits Kadyrov with reining in a radical Islamist insurgency in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus region, but human rights advocates accuse him of presiding over widespread abuses. U.S. imposes sanctions on Chechen leader over human rights violations 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z It noted that the exercise is intended to train the troops for fending off “terrorist threats” in the country’s southwest and prepare for the even bigger “Caucasus-2020” drills later this year. Putin orders military drills for 150,000 troops 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z Skirmishes on the volatile border between the two south Caucasus nations began on Sunday. At least 16 dead after Armenia and Azerbaijan border clashes 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z The three-week-old conflict over the disputed Caucasus territory hints of a long and punishing fight. At Front Lines of a Brutal War: Death and Despair in Nagorno-Karabakh 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z “Taking military steps will cause greater problems in the Caucasus,” he said. Turkey Jumps Into Another Foreign Conflict, This Time in the Caucasus 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Skirmishes on the volatile border between the two South Caucasus nations began Sunday. Armenia-Azerbaijan border fighting escalates, 13 killed 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z The two ex-Soviet republics in the Caucasus fought a bitter war in the 1990s, when Armenia backed the majority ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan. Deadly clashes on Armenia-Azerbaijan border 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z It is the worst-affected country in the South Caucasus region and hundreds of new infections are still being recorded each day. Armenia extends coronavirus state of emergency until August 12 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z The three-week-old conflict over the disputed Caucasus territory hints of a long and punishing fight. At Front Lines of a Brutal War: Death and Despair in Nagorno-Karabakh 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z Exchanges of fire began on Sunday and continued into Monday in the rugged South Caucasus region. Several soldiers killed in Armenia-Azerbaijan border clashes, ministries say 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z A group of public scientists, dubbed the three musketeers, are being praised for steering the Caucasus state's successful response to the pandemic. How 'three musketeers' helped Georgia fight virus 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Chechnya is a predominantly Muslim Russian republic in the North Caucasus. Russian arrested in Austria over killing of Chechen dissident 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Also badly hit is the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia, an isolated area in the North Caucasus. Putin Pushes Through Referendum Even as Virus Surges in Russia 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Azerbaijan, wedged between the Caucasus Mountains and Iran on the Caspian Sea, fell in the second group. Trump Didn’t ‘Send In the Troops.’ They Were Already There. 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Earlier on Tuesday some 400 Azerbaijani nationals stranded in a make-shift camp near the border in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan blocked a highway to protest the way their evacuation is organized. 150 stranded Azerbaijanis to return home from Russia 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z But the South Caucasus nation, tucked between Turkey and Russia, offers a look into some of the emerging strategies, such as promoting low infection rates and being selective about who gets in. On the Black Sea, Georgia rebrands as a holiday haven from the pandemic 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z “For example, in the Caucasus region it’s just a total mess,” she added. In Russia’s pandemic struggles, even Putin couldn’t speed bonuses to health workers 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Archaeological excavations in the North Caucasus revealed that in the late sixth century and the first half of the seventh, most Chinese silk and other goods were brought to Byzantium using the Georgian route. How Silk-Making Represents a More Hidden Side of Georgia’s Past 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z The biggest of these was an anti-lockdown march on April 20 in Vladikavkaz, a city on the edge of the Caucasus Mountains. Putin, Russia’s Man of Action, Is Passive, Even Bored, in the Coronavirus Era 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z And in the province of North Ossetia in the North Caucasus mountains, hundreds took to the streets demanding to end the lockdown and scuffling with police. Facing disaster, Russian businesses find Kremlin aid lacking 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z Last year saw more than 15,000 migrants arrive in Armenia, the largest number in over a decade, according to Hrant Mikaelian, a statistician and researcher at the Yerevan think tank Caucasus Institute. A diaspora in reverse: Armenian Americans return to the homeland 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Russia maintains 13 antiplague centers, from the Far East to the Caucasus Mountains, five plague research institutes and multiple field stations. How Bubonic Plague Has Helped Russia Fight the Coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z But over the following centuries, silk production would expand across Central Asia and into the Caucasus, and by the 12th century A.D., How Silk-Making Represents a More Hidden Side of Georgia’s Past 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Salmon was eaten by Neanderthals in the Caucasus Mountains about 48,000 years ago. Staying healthy indoors, the past and future of power, and shoe libraries: Books in brief 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Republic of Georgia: A 79-year-old woman who tested positive for the coronavirus died in the South Caucasus region on Saturday, becoming the country’s first reported death related to the pandemic. Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Warns of ‘a Lot of Death’ While Also Revisiting Easter Sunday Services 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z “We’re restructuring my training and there’s nothing terrible about that. The main thing is health,” Salukvadze told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from her home in the South Caucasus nation. Record-setting Olympians stretch careers for games in 2021 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Sarksyan stepped down in April 2018 following protests over him going back on a promise not to become prime minister of the South Caucasus country of around 3 million after two terms as the president. Armenia charges former defense minister with embezzlement 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z To the west of Tbilisi is the Black Sea, and to the east the Greater Caucasus Mountains. How Silk-Making Represents a More Hidden Side of Georgia’s Past 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Yuri Y. Chaika, the powerful prosecutor general, abruptly left his post on Monday, only to resurface as Mr. Putin’s new representative to Russia’s northern Caucasus region on Tuesday. Big Changes? Or Maybe Not. Putin’s Plans Keep Russia Guessing. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Putin, a former KGB officer, first took office in 2000 and secured popularity with promises of economic stability and ending the drawn-out wars with Chechnya, Russia’s troublesome region in the North Caucasus. Putin’s, Xi’s ruler-for-life moves pose challenges to West 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z And later, she went to Nagorno-Karabakh, in the mountains of the South Caucasus, a region famous for its jingalov, and where women set up stalls to make it fresh on the streets. These Armenian Flatbreads Stuffed With Greens Are the Perfect Snack 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Defying Russia’s post-communist constitution, Moscow police began enforcing Soviet-era residence restrictions on migrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia. Yuri Luzhkov, transformative Moscow mayor, dies at 83 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z A Georgian national, Khangoshvili fought in the second Chechen war against Russian forces in the North Caucasus in the period 2001-2005. Germany expels Russia diplomats over Berlin murder 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Only one of Nicaragua’s allies had sent its leader to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ortega’s victory, and that was South Ossetia, a tiny Russia-backed breakaway territory in the Caucasus. How the Trump Cabinet’s Bible Teacher Became a Shadow Diplomat 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z He said Tuesday after inspecting the base that it serves as “the guarantor of stability in the Caucasus region.” Russian defense minister hails military ties with Armenia 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The hard core of die-hard IS fighters and their dependants are nearly all from outside the region - Europe, North Africa, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. The threat of IS resurgence amid northern Syria's chaos 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z They’ve targeted the ball in the carry very well tonight, the men from the Caucasus. Australia v Georgia: Rugby World Cup 2019 – live! 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z The reader needs to first understand that this is an ancient culture, forged in the insular mountain region of the Caucasus over many centuries. An eye-opening, first-hand view of Chechnya today 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z It says the accident took place Sunday at the Khan’s Palace in the historic city of Sheki, located on the ancient Silk Road that passes through the Caucasus Mountains. 19 hurt by falling tree branch at Azerbaijan UNESCO site 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z The State Duma on Tuesday voted unanimously to pass a declaration calling for unspecified trade restrictions against the Caucasus nation. Russian lawmakers call for trade restrictions on Georgia 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The Caucasian Chalk Circle A kitchen maid rescues an abandoned baby during a civil war in the Caucasus region of Georgia in Bertolt Brecht’s classic satire. SoCal theater listings, July 7-14: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong,’ ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ and more 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Giant hogweed is native to the Caucasus Mountain region between the Black and Caspian seas. New York makes progress fighting giant weed with toxic sap 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z I have to admit I was hesitant when asked to participate in a 10-day “cultural tour” of Chechnya in the northern Caucasus. An eye-opening, first-hand view of Chechnya today 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z The small south Caucasus nation, a U.S. ally, fought and lost a short war against Moscow in 2008. Georgia and Russia trade blame over unrest as crisis brews 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z In January, Airbnb expanded that policy to other regions with an announcement that it would also remove listings in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, disputed territories in the Caucasus. Airbnb Reverses Policy Banning Listings in Israeli Settlements in West Bank 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The former Soviet nation, in the Caucasus mountains south of Russia and north of Iran, is technically still at war with neighboring Armenia, dating back to 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union. Azerbaijan ambassador warns of 'dangerous escalation' with Armenia 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z He claimed that the culprit was a "beast from the Caucasus", a "Chechen Muslim" and a "former refugee". How the far right hijacked a teenager’s murder 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z “From the humanitarian point of view, this is a very strong and quite unexpected position,” said Ekaterina Sokirianskaya, the director of the Conflict Analysis and Prevention centre and an expert on the north Caucasus. 'We aren't dangerous': Why Chechnya has welcomed women who joined Isis 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z She added that Markelova’s daughter receives some privileges as a child of a deceased veteran from his time in the North Caucasus. Exclusive: Ex-wife of Russian killed in Syria tells Kremlin - come... 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z The senator for the North Caucasus republic of Karachay-Cherkessia was detained in a parliamentary session. Russian senator arrested in parliament 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The “sheer preponderance of Caucasus Masculinus gives me pause,” James wrote. Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The myth of the "beast from the Caucasus" persisted. How the far right hijacked a teenager’s murder 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The tech behemoth removed 364 Facebook Pages and accounts that originated in Russian but operated across the Baltics, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Central and Eastern Europe, for their coordinated inauthentic behavior. Facebook removes 512 Russian accounts and pages that were spreading disinformation 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The government feted the arrival of foreign dignitaries who traveled for the inauguration, including the president of South Ossetia - a disputed territory in the Caucasus region that is rarely described as nation. Maduro faces next term in a hobbled, isolated Venezuela 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z A number of people from Russia’s North Caucasus region were later jailed over the blasts. Russian investigators deny explosives caused Magnitogorsk building collapse 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z A blatant preference for Caucasus Masculinus is no longer particularly fashionable, either. Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z After a change of power in the South Caucasus country of around 3 million people, Pashinyan’s government sought to initiate changes to the electoral code. Armenia election: reformist PM Nikol Pashinian wins convincing victory 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z It is a key ally for Moscow in the Caucasus, and depends on Russia for its security. Armenia holds test general election 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z The country is after all a strategic ally for Moscow in the Caucasus. Gloves come off after ‘Velvet Revolution’ 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Georgia, a country with 4 million people in the volatile Caucasus region, is transitioning to a parliamentary republic. French-born diplomat wins presidency in ex-Soviet Georgia 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z At the meeting, Carmel said genetic analysis suggests they were recent immigrants from today's Armenia in the Caucasus, some 1300 kilometers to the north. In biblical city of Armageddon, signs of early vanilla and elaborate medical care 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Georgia, a nation of nearly 4 million people in the volatile Caucasus region south of Russia, is transitioning to a parliamentary republic. Georgians set to vote in hotly contested presidential runoff 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The story of how a Caucasus backwater became a Kremlin financial hub sheds light on Russia’s opportunistic, low-budget approach to building its foreign influence in the region. To avoid sanctions, Kremlin goes off the grid 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The wider North Caucasus region remains volatile, however, with unemployment and corruption pushing some young men to embrace radical Islam. Chechnya: woman blows herself up at checkpoint in Grozny 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z But selecting a name that signals the geographical breadth of members’ work — which spans North Africa to the Caucasus, and the Levant to Afghanistan — proved challenging, Ackerman says. ‘Oriental’ archaeology society reconsiders its name 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Mountain Jews are the descendants of Jews who left ancient Persia and settled in the Caucasus. Pope condemns anti-Semitism amid increase in attacks on Jews 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Francis lamented current anti-Semitic attitudes as he greeted visiting rabbis from the World Congress of Mountain Jews from the Caucasus at the Vatican Monday. Pope: let’s pledge to ban anti-Semitism from humanity 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z For South Ossetians, the winding drive and two-mile tunnel through the Caucasus to Russia is now the sole link to the rest of the world. To avoid sanctions, Kremlin goes off the grid 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The Kremlin also resents what it considers U.S. interference in the politics of countries once under Moscow’s sphere of influence, from Ukraine to the Caucasus. Why it’s still in Russia’s interest to mess with US politics 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z The Kremlin also resents what it considers U.S. interference in the politics of countries once under Moscow's sphere of influence, from Ukraine to the Caucasus. Why it's still in Russia's interest to mess with US politics 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Attacks on police and the FSB occur regularly in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region but are rare outside it. World Digest: Oct. 31, 2018 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Bolton met Putin, as well as senior Russian defence and diplomatic officials, before beginning a tour through ex-Soviet countries in the Caucasus, including Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Donald Trump invites Vladimir Putin to Washington 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “Don’t forget, Anatolia is a wall and if this wall collapses, there will no longer be a Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, Balkans or Caucasus.” Turkey's Erdogan says will bring safety and peace to Syria, Iraq 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z In the video released by Islamic State’s media arm Amaq, the boys described themselves as the “Mujahideen of the Caucasus” and threatened attacks on infidels. Islamic State video claims to show boys behind Chechnya attacks 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Only years ago, Russia’s predominantly North Caucasus region was the epicenter of a separatist Islamic insurgency rooted in the two Chechen wars. Islamic State Claims Multiple Attacks in Chechnya 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The wider North Caucasus region remains volatile however with unemployment and corruption pushing some young men to embrace radical Islam. Militants attack police targets in Russia's Chechnya 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The Russian government first promulgated an anti-extremism law in 2003, as it was fighting a violent Islamist insurgency, especially in the North Caucasus region of the country. Protesters Accuse Russia of Entrapping Young Critics Online 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z The government, in an effort to stimulate regional investment, had established a special zone in Kalmykia, a republic north of the Caucasus, that offered a lower tax rate. How Bill Browder Became Russia’s Most Wanted Man 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Shrugging off international condemnation of Kadyrov’s human rights record, Seagal has visited the leader and even tried his moves in a traditional Chechen dance while in the restive North Caucasus republic. Steven Seagal, actor, black belt, and now Kremlin 'special representative' With the formation of Islamic State, the leaders of the North Caucasus insurgency vowed allegiance to Raqqa and thousands of fighters from the region left Russia to fight in Syria and Iraq. Islamic State Claims Multiple Attacks in Chechnya 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Russia is also conducting its own military exercises in the North Caucasus region, which borders Georgia. Georgia raps Russia at start of U.S.-led war games 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Seven police officers were convicted of torturing 13 suspects at a police station in the North Caucasus region of Ingushetia. Russia takes steps to punish prison torture after brutal beating captured on video 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Just over the border from Georgia, in the Caucasus Mountains of southern Russia, lies a small town called Neytrino. The Neutrino Trappers 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z This is the age of the oldest hominin fossils discovered beyond Africa—from Dmanisi, Georgia, in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Tools from China are Oldest Hint of Human Lineage Outside Africa 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z This is the age of the oldest hominin fossils discovered beyond Africa — from Dmanisi, Georgia, in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Tools from China are oldest hint of human lineage outside Africa 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of the tiny republic in Russia’s North Caucasus, uses Islam to further his own interests, including rebuilding mosques in Syria and stamping out Islamist militancy at home. Forgiven by her native Chechnya, a woman is returned from Islamic State 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Giant hogweed is native to the Caucasus Mountains and central Asia, but was brought to New York City as a garden adornment in 1917. Invasive Giant Hogweed's Solar-Activated Sap Causes Blistering Skin Burns 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z An extra population of neutrinos discovered by scientists in a cave in the Caucasus would affect basic calculations of the expansion of the universe. The Neutrino Trappers 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z “Those are the ethnic republics of North Caucasus, such as Chechnya and Dagestan.” England camp on high terror alert before Volgograd opener 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z According to Sova, Africans are the third-largest ethnic group to be targeted by racists in Russia, after people from former Soviet countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Can Russia, with its history of racist attacks and hooligans, put on a World Cup welcome? 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z He travelled from the Caucasus Mountains to Israel and beyond, and riffled through archives, to unearth ancient ‘founder’ grape varieties. The triumph of random testing, a quest for ancient wine, and a history of mirages: Books in brief 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Census figures are somewhat inexact in Armenia, a small country in the south Caucasus, but they show that at least 370,000 people emigrated in the last decade. Behind Armenia’s Revolt, Young Shock Troops From the Tech Sector 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z |
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