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Karachayevo-Cherkessia Parliamentarians Demand Genocide Denial Be Designated a Criminal Offense 15 Jun 2013 | 06:02 pm
Regnum -- At the June 13 session of the National Assembly (Parliament) of Karachayevo-Cherkessia, deputies passed a resolution on submitting to the Russian State Duma a draft federal law "On Amendment...
Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazia’s Leader, Dies at 62, by Ellen Barry 31 May 2011 | 08:50 am
The New York Times, MOSCOW — Sergei V. Bagapsh, who led the Black Sea enclave of Abkhazia through a tumultuous effort to gain independence from Georgia without being absorbed by Russia, died Sunday in...
Beware of Greeks bringing gifts, by Richard Berge 16 May 2011 | 12:28 am
antigeopolitics, May 14 -- Ahead of the anniversary of the mass killings and forced exile of the Circassians from their ancestral lands in the Caucasus at the hands of the Russian Empire in the second...
Terrorism meets xenophobia in Russia, by Charles King and Rajan Menon 7 Feb 2011 | 08:47 am
Terrorism meets xenophobia in Russia Deadly tit-for-tat between ethnic Russians and North Caucasus migrants is escalating. Los Angeles Times By Charles King and Rajan Menon February 6, 2011 If cu...
Cherkesov's relatives treat murder of "Spartak" fan as tragic accident 17 Dec 2010 | 10:57 pm
Caucasian Knot, Dec. 13, 2010 -- Relatives and friends of Aslan Cherkesov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, suspected of murdering Yegor Sviridov, a football fan of "Spartak" in Moscow, consider what...
Fearing Clashes, Police Detain Scores 16 Dec 2010 | 10:44 pm
Riot police officers detaining young men they suspect of seeking to stage interracial riots outside the Kievsky train station in Moscow on Wednesday. By Natalya Krainova - The Moscow Times Thousands...
Far right goes on rampage during anti-immigrant clashes in Moscow 16 Dec 2010 | 10:23 pm
Many of the demonstrators shouted nationalist slogans and gave Nazi salutes. By Shaun Walker in Moscow - The Independent Police detained around 1,000 people in central Moscow yesterday in an attempt...
Geopolitics For Dummies: What Does The Collapse Of The Soviet Union Really Mean? By Eugene Ivanov 14 Dec 2010 | 08:00 am
The Ivanov Report, December 13, 2010 -- Regardless of how one would characterize the collapse of the Soviet Union -- as the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century" or just its "major geopol...
Soccer fans clash with police in Moscow 12 Dec 2010 | 11:14 pm
(CNN), December 12 -- Police have released more than 60 soccer fans detained Saturday in downtown Moscow riots that injured 29 people, an interior department spokesman said Sunday, according to state-...
21 May 1864: From Dmitri Kipiani to Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich Romanov 10 Dec 2010 | 08:35 am
Excerpt from Stanislav Lakoba's ''Двуглавый орел и традиционная Абхазия'' (Double-headed eagle, traditional Abkhazia) In the suppression of the last pockets of resistance in the Caucasus, Georgian mi...
