Caucasus

But he took a tough line on the worsening Islamist insurgency in the north Caucasus, promising to "exterminate the bandits" .

By way of a welcome for Mr Obama, Russia has staged the biggest military exercise in the north Caucasus since the end of the cold war.

All this can only fan the fast-spreading conflict between the ethnic Russian population and the Muslims of the north Caucasus.

Sayyidina Muhammad al-Madani decided to pass through his homeland in the Caucasus to visit his parents and family on his way to Turkey.

After taking away the silk covered on her face, scientists found out that she was a typical example of women who lived in Caucasus region.

The German panzer divisions were rebuilt ready to launch a new Blitzkrieg, this time aimed at seizing Russia's oil fields in the Caucasus .

The head of Russia's main intelligence agency-the FSB said the bombs were most likely the work of groups from the North Caucasus.

"It was in the interest of those who seek to undermine legal institutions in the Caucasus, " he said.

But as a clear, brief guide to the countries of the south Caucasus, it would be hard to do better than this book.

JUST over two years ago Ingushetia, the smallest and once the most peaceful republic in the north Caucasus, was in a state of civil war.

As a result, the United States must "military strategic partnership" in the form of long-term troops out of the Caucasus countries.

In the shortterm, none of this is likely to deter Russia from reasserting itself inthe Caucasus if it feels inclined to do so.

In the short term, none of this is likely to deter Russia from reasserting itself in the Caucasus if it feels inclined to do so.

There was an official with a large roll of paper containing a new plan for subjugating the Caucasus .

Since the early 1990s Moscow's only policies have been brute force and money, first in Chechnya and then across the north Caucasus.

A new war would risk Azerbaijan's petro-wealth, but irrational behaviour is all too common in the Caucasus.

This left the Caucasus unprotected, and the Caucasian and Persian civilians starving after years of war and depravation.

It is about a stagnant economy, rampant corruption, growing frustration among the middle classes and a war in the north Caucasus.

But we did not do so in Algeria, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Croatia, Rwanda, the Caucasus, the Kurdish area and many other regions.

In the past such bespredel (extreme lawlessness) was mostly restricted to Chechnya and a few other parts of the north Caucasus.

He said that Armenia is an important cooperation partner and reliable friend of China in the outer Caucasus.

His latest asks the question, should the Caucasus be considered to be a separate geographic region?

The Russian capital has been repeatedly rocked by attacks over the last years blamed on militants from its Northern Caucasus region.

At least 12 people have been killed in a suspect ed suicide attack in Russia's North Caucasus.

In the heart of the Caucasus mountains, this ancient Georgian watch tower is useful once again.

HIGH-STAKES chess game is being played out in the south Caucasus. It involves America, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Turkey.

That might conceivably lead to another war in the Caucasus or to an attack on Ukraine, vulnerable because of the ethnically Russian Crimea.

Russia has issued a blunt challenge to the West to stay out of its Caucasus backyard.

Raising a vodka shot to Allah used to be standard practice in the Caucasus, says Mr Malashenko.

Eleven years on, the north Caucasus is still one of Russia's biggest headaches.

The 16th and 17th centuries were a time of shifting political and economic alliances in the Caucasus.

So, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, have former communist countries in the Caucasus and the western Balkans.

The scientists also analyzed fossilized bone collections from ancient hominid sites in Spain, the U. K. and the Caucasus region.

This might not stop the spread of radical Islam in the north Caucasus or eradicate all the rebels, but it would weaken their support.

Azerbaijan is a country in the Caucasus, at the crossroads of Europe and Southwest Asia, with a coast on the Caspian Sea.

Fact number three: of course, if there had only been an interview with the Caucasus Knot, Politkovskaya would have been alive now.

The authorities in Baku continue to flirt with Russia (though any pipeline going northward would have to cross the unstable north Caucasus).

Terrorism returned to Russia when the volatile north Caucasus region was hit by two bombs in one day, one of them deadly.

The Russian government repeatedly stated that the Caucasus is not to give up "option. "

More than the western Balkans and Turkey are at stake: watching in the wings are other would-be applicants, from Ukraine to the Caucasus.

Officials have blamed Muslim groups from the northern Caucasus, where rebels have been waging violent campaigns for independence.

Despite Soviet-era attempts to force residents of the Caucasus to speak Russian, many Caucasian languages thrive today.

But the measures appear to have little effect, as the deadly attacks in the Caucasus and Russia continue.

Security through tourism: it's an idea aimed not only at the North Caucasus, but at regional powers Azerbaijan and Armenia as well.

The number of "missing girls" doubled in Europe and Central Asia (mainly in the Balkans and the Caucasus), from a low base.

Ciscaucasia: steppe land of southeast European U. S. S. R. in the Caucasus north of the main range of the Caucasus Mountains.

An ineffective economy, a semi-Soviet social sphere, a weak democracy, negative demographic trends and an unstable Caucasus.

There have been many such signs, from barbarity in the north Caucasus to harassment of foreign oil firms and meddlesome foreign policy.

Most worryingly, the violence in the North Caucasus has spread from Chechnya to the rest of the region.

Conflicts in its north Caucasus republics have flared again. Its armed forces are woefully ill-equipped and poorly trained.

Violence connected to the conflicts in the Caucasus has also erupted in other parts of Russia, including the Moscow subway attacks in 2004.

Four Russian policemen were killed by a suicide-bomber in Chechnya. The Russian north Caucasus has seen a wave of violence in recent months.

Russia can have its Caucasus, and if the generals in Myanmar should go mad, it would become China's and India's problem to sort out.

they formed an arc of instability from Belarus in the north-east, round the Caucasus and along North Africa to Morocco.

Past terrorist attacks have been traced to militants in the North Caucasus, a predominantly Muslim region in the south of Russia.

The son of an agricultural mechanic in the North Caucasus, Mikhail Gorbachev wasn't exactly tapped for greatness at birth.

But he must always wear an iron ring, ring studded with a stone on Mount Caucasus.

Kabardino - Balkar Republic Chechen Republic, Dagestan Republic, Ingushetia Republic belong to the Russian North Caucasus Federal District.

It also serves the darker business of bringing sex workers westwards from the ex-Soviet republics of the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Army Group A turned southwards after bypassing Rostov, and headed into the Caucasus with the key oil fields as its objective.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks but some analysts are linking the attacks to North Caucasus insurgents.

The main slogan of the ultra-nationalists who rioted in Moscow recently was "Fuck the Caucasus" .

North Caucasus' Islamist militants Wednesday claimed responsibility for the bombing that derailed a Russian express train killing 27 people.

And the main attraction of this place is the Caucasus, its clean air and cool rivers and lakes.

Client aircraft no longer shake in the air if flying in the Caucasus region.

NATO condemned the voting, saying it serves no purpose other than to increase tensions in the South Caucasus region.

Officials said preliminary investigation indicated both blasts were set off by women with links to the country's North Caucasus region.

And its neocolonial methods of governance in the north Caucasus have created a tinderbox.

He claimed that some NGOs were also being used by international terror groups to support militants in Russia's volatile North Caucasus.

It also has criticized abuses in the Caucasus, including extrajudicial killings, kidnappings and torture.

Hillary Clinton, the American secretary of state, completed a tour of eastern Europe and the Caucasus.

Interfax quoted sources as saying that Moscow Domodedovo airport bomb blast assault may come from the North Caucasus region.

Russia's North Caucasus region of frequent violence, for attacks on police and government departments continue.

Nobody wants a small war in the Caucasus to become the trigger for a new global conflict.

Clinton repeatedly pressed the issue during her tour of Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus, which concluded in Georgia.

The leader of the Islamist rebels, Doku Umarov, has proclaimed himself emir of north Caucasus.

The republics of Russia's North Caucasus region have undergone centuries of invasion, warfare, and civil strife.

IN RECENT weeks Russian nostalgia for past greatness has been seen stretching from the North Pole to the Mediterranean via the Caucasus.

In total contrast, Russia has nakedly pursued its own interests in the Caucasus.

Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, has described the situation in the north Caucasus as Russia's biggest domestic political problem.

The Russian security services said two female suicide bombers from the north Caucasus were responsible.

Mountain slopes; ca. 2500 m. S Xizang, Yunnan (Menghai) [Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan; SW Asia (Caucasus, Iraq), Europe].

But there have been signs of a resurgence, including surging terrorist violence in the north Caucasus over the last year.

Umarov said that the attack was intended to establish an independent North Caucasus religious state.

He mentions Sheikh Mansur, who in 1785 organised the first large-scale rebellion against Russian expansion into the Caucasus highlands.

Panzergrenadiers advance through cornfields in the 1942 German drive to the Caucasus, covered by a PzKpfw IV.

Russian news agencies reported that the women came by bus to Moscow from the North Caucasus on Sunday.

Regional threats: Arab Spring countries, the Middle East, South Asia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and other areas remain unstable.

Soldatov said that the daily killings in the North Caucasus go largely unreported in Russia's Moscow-based media.

The conflict impedes economic development and regional co-operation in the south Caucasus.

Conflicts in its north Caucasus republics have flared again.

That's the message of Kanal PIK, an ambitious government-funded effort to start a Caucasus version of al-Jazeera.

Muslim fundamentalism is on the rise in the north Caucasus. To stop it, Russian policy must change.

Contains the notes of Petit Grain from Paraguay, Clary Sage from the Caucasus and Bourbon Geranium.

Meanwhile the repercussions of this small war in the Caucasus will spread a lot wider.

But even as the world's attention is fixed on Georgia, Russian citizens keep dying in the north Caucasus.

Aremenia is a landlocked country in the southern Caucasus, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

The insurgents have threatened to disrupt the 2014 Games in Sochi, on the western edge of the Caucasus region.

Georgia is by far the most developed country in the Caucasus, both economically and politically.

Tatarstan is stable, but the republics of the north Caucasus are aflame. Why?

Video images showed several men from Central Asia and the Caucasus walking dazed with bloody faces.

Pavel Baev studies the Caucasus rebel movement from the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway.

Roadsides and other disturbed places, introduced; below 3000 m. Hebei, Shanghai, Taiwan [W Mediterranean region, SW Asia (Caucasus)].

The number of insurgents is estimated by experts at 500 men, plus 600-800 part-timers, across the whole north Caucasus.

The Caucasus Mountains in Russia, the Japanese island of Okinawa and the mountain town of Vilcabamba, Ecuador, are often mentioned.

The scientists focused on Mezmaiskaya Cave, a key site in the northern Caucasus Mountains within European Russia.

Georgia counts in the Caucasus; it also has vital pipelines that cross its territory.

It will also build up its role in the Middle East, the Caucasus and the oil-rich former Soviet central Asian countries.

FAITH LAPIDUS: Kilims are a kind of tapestry made across North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey and the Caucasus.

ubiquitous in all but very acid soil; most of Europe (except Arctic Caucasus) and North Africa.

ubiquitous in all but very acid soil; most of Europe (except Arctic Caucasus) and North Africa.

Georgia counts in the Caucasus; it also has vl pipelines that cross its territory.

Win the Caucasus for the Russian tsar, gain fame and wealth and titles?

"Soso" wandered from town to town in the Caucasus, using numerous aliases.

Radicalisation of young people is increasing, both in the north Caucasus and in Moscow.

It's the latest in a series of attacks in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region.

African Swine Fever was confirmed in Georgia in early June 2007, the first time the virus occurred in the Caucasus region.

You'd better just pray you can get over the Caucasus before you have to answer to the Armenian Air Force.

That's true; yet the problems in the north Caucasus are largely of Russia's own making.

Even after the Moscow attacks, there is little public discussion about the roots of the violence in the north Caucasus.

Even after the Moscow attacks, there is little public discussion about the roots of the violence in the north Caucasus.

In the Caucasus, the government has reached an agreement with Armenia that, with luck and effort, could end a century of mutual hostility.

The Circassians descend from a Caucasus nation obliterated by Russia's tsar in the mid-19th century, losing around half its 2m population.

Russia is wary of Iran causing trouble in the combustible Caucasus.

If instability in the Caucasus scares off European investors, that could create more space for the Chinese.

Basic Multilateral Agreement on International Transport and on the Development of the Corridor "Europe-the Caucasus-Asia"

Foreign Capital in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Curse or Blessing?

Blood had flowed in Lithuania and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus.

In the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia is illegal armed active region.

It will next be provided to the North Caucasus Military District.

It will next be provided to the North Caucasus Military District.

We will remain dedicated to advancing stability and democracy in the Balkans and to resolving conflicts in the Caucasus and in Cyprus.

A fresh spate of killings hit Chechnya, in Russia's north Caucasus.

Men from the south, from the Caucasus region, are macho, strong.

Even in Russia few people take much interest in the north Caucasus.

A similar pull is at work in Turkey and the western Balkans, and even as far afield as Ukraine and the Caucasus.

Problems are certain enough in the Caucasus.

Geographer Martin Lewis wrote a series of posts about the Caucasus on his GeoCurrents blog.

In August 2008, Mr Bush and Mr Putin talked in Beijing about the worsening situation in the Caucasus.

There is such an orchestra in the Caucasus.

There is such an orchestra in the Caucasus.

That corridor of Turkey and the Caucasus has become the conduit for 20 percent of Europe's energy supply.

For most people outside the Caucasus, it is more of a forgotten one.

In addition, the 2014 Winter Olympics host city of Sochi, also located in the Caucasus, the attack outside the security concerns raised.

The north Caucasus, on the other hand, was colonised by Russia only in the second half of the 19th century, and was never fully assimilated.

Now let's look at Turkey, and the Caucasus.

'Given how bad the situation in the North Caucasus is, we'll have an elevated level of terror threat every day, ' he said.

A military conflict, more attention to the world outside the Caucasus .

For example, in the Caucasus there's a site where you find local neanderthal tools.

Zeus will lock the cliff in the Caucasus mountains, sent an eagle every day to eat his liver, letting his liver grew back every day.

Zeus will lock the cliff in the Caucasus mountains, sent an eagle every day to eat his liver, letting his liver grew back every day.

What in your opinion sparked the conflict in the Caucasus last year?

The second part discusses some internal factors restraining the strategic interests of the United States in Central Asia and Outer-Caucasus;

Bioecological and Biochemical Features of Seabuckthorn Growing in the Great Caucasus

International regional centre for the mountainous regions of the Caucasus;

Two horrifying terrorist metro bombings in Moscow, but still there is a need for a new approach to the north Caucasus

The Caucasus Region Power Plant Rehabilitation and Refurbishment Markets

United Nations Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for Caucasus;

Declaration on Peace, Security and Cooperation in the Caucasus Region;

Georgia Diary: A Chronicle Of War And Political Chaos In The Post-soviet Caucasus

Georgia Diary: A Chronicle Of War And Political Chaos In The Post-soviet Caucasus

Night Ride Across the Caucasus

CMAAO; Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus;

Security Situation in Central Asia and Outer-Caucasus

Disillusionment in the Caucasus and Central Asia

The Trend of US-Russia Rivalry over Outer Caucasus

It abuts Iraq, Syria, Iran and the Caucasus;

chicken soup a la Caucasus