Adventures in My Beloved Medieval Alania and Beyond: A Time-Travel Novel Set in the 10th Century Caucasus Mountains
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
NAZRAN, Russia - The beheaded bodies of a police officer and a bailiff have been found in a volatile province in Russia's North Caucasus, officials said Tuesday. The...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The headless bodies of a court bailiff and a police officer have been found in Russia's turbulent North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, news agencies reported on Tuesday. The bodies were found late Monday in the trunk of a car parked in the town of Chegen, and they had been shot before being beheaded, RIA Novosti quoted a local security official as saying. Police are looking into several theories...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Police killed three militants in a special operation near the border of the Russian North Caucasus republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia on Tuesday, a Chechen representative in the Russian parliament said.
The Art Club Caucasus (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists
The Art Club Caucasus (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Azerbaijan casts a doubt on international efforts to establish peace and stability in the South Caucasus.
The Art Club Caucasus (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Art Club Caucasus works by various artists
Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
It was Islamic jihadists again, oddly enough. Everyone knows that all religions have their fanatics and extremists and they're all equally dangerous, yet those Christian beheaders remain inconveniently quiet. "Russian officials beheaded in N. Caucasus-Ifax," from Reuters, November 24 (thanks to Islam In Europe): MOSCOW, Nov 24 (Reuters) - A...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | yesterday
ZURICH.- In an exhibition entitled "Idyll in an Obstructed Landscape", to run from February 26 until May 16, 2010, Kunsthaus Zürich presents the work of the painter and poet Salomon Gessner, a long-time resident of Zurich. The show reconstructs Gessner’s cabinet, the cornerstone of today’s Kunsthaus collection laid in the first half of the 19th'century. Salomon Gessner (1730-1788)...
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mother Nature seems to have been an especial bitch on this day throughout history. A list of the devastation: 1343 An earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea created a tsunami that destroyed much of Naples 1667 An earthquake near Shemakha, in the Caucasus, left 80,000 dead 1703 The Great Storm of 1703 devastated southern England. The storm began on 24 November, but reached a climax on 26/27 November, with...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Moscow - Three drunken policemen in Moscow reportedly beat a young immigrant man from the South Caucasus to death and left another in serious condition, local media reported Tuesday. According to the Interfax news agency, the policemen provoked a fig...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A police investigator and a court bailiff were found beheaded in a car trunk in Russia's mainly Muslim region of Kabardino-Balkaria, Interfax said on Tuesday, underscoring spreading violence on Russia's southern flank.
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Yerevan is hosting a roundtable discussion titled "CSTO as a factor of stability and security in the Caucasus."
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The headless bodies of a court bailiff and a police officer have been found in the southern Russian republic of Kabardino Balkaria, a security official said on Tuesday.
Freewill Applicator (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
I was lucky enough to catch a very good reading at LA's Poetic Research Bureau last night. First off, it was a great chance to socialize with almost the full complement of LA poets. Ara Shirinyan, Joseph Mosconi, Brian Kim Stefans, Aaron Kunin, Franklin Bruno (on loan from NY), Harold Abramowitz and Andrew Maxwell were all there, plus Mark Wallace and Lorraine Graham up from San Diego--I was thrilled...
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