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Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Police killed a militant who tried to plant a roadside bomb in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, the regional interior department said on Sunday.
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Tangible Information (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Arı sponsors pro-Ergenekon conference at US Congress Gareth H. Jenkins, the author of �?Between Fact and Fantasy: Turkey�?s Ergenekon Investigation,” which many pundits find to be too one-sided, spoke yesterday at a conference in Washington on the Ergenekon trial sponsored by the Ari Foundation. The Arı Foundation, a civil society organization previously known for its...
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Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Environmentalists say crustaceans victims of pollution but demand also cited. By Idrak Abbasov on Pirallahi (CRS No. 520, 20-Nov-09)
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Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Mixed motives seen in proposed move to end three-year frontier closure. By Dimitri Avaliani in Tbilisi and Samvel Avagian in Yerevan (CRS No. 520, 20-Nov-09)
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The Art Club Caucasus (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
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A Step At A Time (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
At Prague Watchdog, Andrei Babitsky and German Sadulayev comment on President Medvedev’s new North Caucasus policy, announced in his recent address to the Federal Assembly, and his appointment of an “overseer” for the region, which is now for the first time being perceived by the Kremlin as a political entity. Also, a new Reuters report [...]
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World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Andy Garcia plays Saakashvili in Renny Harlin's Georgia Harlin's anti-war film about the 2008 war in the Caucasus began shooting in Georgia at the weekend Andy Garcia in the role of Mikheil Saakashvili in the presidential office in Tbilisi In the hot seat
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Kavkazcenter.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
As it is reported from a source of KC, an unknown group carried out an informational campaign in Maykop in support of Caucasus Emirate and Emir of CE Dokka Abu Usman. There is a submontane height on Podlesnaya street (end street in[...]
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Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
BY JOSHUA KUCERA Kazakhstan, Georgia and Azerbaijan all showed significant decreases in corruption over the past year, according to a recently published worldwide survey by a Berlin-based watchdog group. The survey also showed that Armenia's rating declined, and the rest of the Central Asian states remained near the bottom of the rankings.
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SCSUScholars (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
While I was reading Eric's post , I came upon a title on that same site " Fear and Loathing in White Cloud ." 'White Cloud' is a smear that people put on my fair city, and has been one I've heard pretty much since I moved here in 1984. At that time I was probably in the darkest 10% of the population here (unlike all you European descendants, my father's family is actually from the Caucasus.)...
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Workingclass Conservative (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A quick look at the countries with the top 15 murder rates in the world today tells an interesting tale. The world’s top 15 violent places are; Colombia 61.1 per 100,000 people El Salvador 56.4 per 100,000 Cote d'Ivoire 45.7 per 100,000 South Africa 39.5 Lesotho 37.3 Angola 36 Burundi 35.4 Congo, the Dem Rep of the 35.2 Sierra Leone 34 Jamaica 33.7 Venezuela 32.5 Brazil 30.8 Belize 30.1 Russian...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
EU and Russian leaders met in Stockholm on Wednesday for a summit dominated by energy issues, as Europe hopes to avoid an interruption of Russian natural gas supplies via Ukraine this winter. Sweden, current holder of the rotating European Union presidency, is also expected to press Moscow on human rights issues in the north Caucasus -- a sensitive subject -- as well as climate change, the global...
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IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
CHATHAM HOUSE Briefing Paper Gareth Winrow, November 2009 Download Paper here Ankara's rapprochement with Moscow has come under question after the August 2008 Russo-Georgian conflict. Turkish officials had believed that they shared common interests in preserving the territorial integrity of states in the Caucasus. The effectiveness of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party's good-neighbourhood...
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Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The son of the mayor of the town of Buinaksk in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan has been kidnapped, police said Wednesday.
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The Art of Nonconformity (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Greetings, friends and readers. I've been traveling in the Caucasus this month, and over the weekend I took advantage of